Caring Campus Racial Equity Advisory Council

Audrey Dow

Senior Vice President, Campaign for College Opportunity

Audrey Dow is the Senior Vice President of the Campaign for College Opportunity, a  California-based policy and research organization that ensures more students go to college and succeed. She has broad responsibilities for co-leading the organization’s strategic direction, robust research agenda, and coalition building.

Dow is a sought-after expert on issues of college access, success, affordability and racial equity, speaking regularly at state and national convenings. She has over twenty years of experience in the public and nonprofit sectors where she has trained Latinas to take on leadership roles in the public sector while working at Hispanas Organized for Political Equality (HOPE) and served as a gubernatorial appointee to the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency.

Her career has been focused on finding solutions to some of the most pressing issues facing the state of California including access and success in higher education, an aging infrastructure system, racial inclusion in hiring, contracting and university admissions, and ensuring underrepresented groups in the state have a seat at policy-making tables.

Audrey Dow has a Bachelor of Science degree in Public Policy and Management from the University of Southern California; a Masters in Public Affairs with an emphasis in Domestic Policy; and a certificate in Urban Policy from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. She serves on a number of boards and commissions, including the Health Professions Education Foundation Board of Directors and the Board of Directors for the Alliance for a Better Community.