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Priscilla Chan (born February 24, 1985) is an American philanthropist and a former pediatrician. She and her husband,
Mark Zuckerberg Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (; born ) is an American business magnate, internet entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He is known for co-founding the social media website Facebook and its parent company Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook, Inc.), o ...
, a co-founder and CEO of
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, established the
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) is an organization established and owned by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan with an investment of 99 percent of the couple's wealth from their Facebook shares over their lifetime ...
in December 2015, with a pledge to transfer 99 percent of their Facebook shares, then valued at $45 billion. She attended
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and received her medical degree from the
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.


Life and career

On February 24, 1985, Chan was born in
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, and grew up in
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, a suburb of
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. Her parents were
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immigrants from
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who fled the country in refugee boats. She grew up speaking
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and interpreted for her grandparents. She has two younger sisters with all siblings born in the United States. Chan's father owned a restaurant in Massachusetts, which he later sold to run a wholesale fish company in 2006. Chan graduated valedictorian of her class from Quincy High School. Chan entered
Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...
in 2003, where she met and began dating Mark Zuckerberg. During her time at Harvard, she participated in the Franklin Afterschool Enrichment program. After graduating in 2007 with a bachelor's degree in biology, she taught science at the private
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for a year, before entering medical school at the
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in 2008, where she finished her pediatrics
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in 2015. She is the first college graduate in her family. In 2016, she co-founded "The Primary School", a nonprofit organization that would provide
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education as well as
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, in
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. She is the board chair of the school.


Personal life

Chan married
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founder
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on May 19, 2012, the day after the site's
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. Chan and Zuckerberg announced the birth of their daughter Maxima Chan Zuckerberg on December 1, 2015. On August 28, 2017, Chan gave birth to their second daughter, whom they named August. On September 21, 2022, Zuckerberg announced that he and Chan are expecting their third daughter, due in 2023. According to a Facebook post by Zuckerberg, Chan is a non-denominational
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.


Philanthropy

Zuckerberg and Chan have pledged about $4.6 billion to charities, including a donation of $75 million to
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, where Chan worked. In 2013, they gave 18 million Facebook shares (valued at more than $970 million) to the
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. ''
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'' placed the couple at the top of its list of 50 most generous American philanthropists for that year. They also pledged $120 million to public schools in the
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. On December 1, 2015, Chan and Zuckerberg posted an open Facebook letter to their newborn daughter. They pledged to transfer 99 percent of their Facebook shares, then valued at $45 billion, to the
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) is an organization established and owned by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan with an investment of 99 percent of the couple's wealth from their Facebook shares over their lifetime ...
, which is their new limited liability company that focuses on health and education. Chan handles the day-to-day operations at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Her charitable goals focus on education, healthcare, and science, which are closely tied to her personal background. She is considered to have had a strong influence on the philanthropy of her husband. She was one of six nominated for The ''
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s third annual Visionary of the Year award in March 2017. The award honors leaders who strive to make the world a better place and also drive change by employing new, innovative business practices.


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Chan, Priscilla American pediatricians Women pediatricians American women physicians Physicians from California American women philanthropists Zuck Zuck Harvard College alumni University of California, San Francisco alumni American Buddhists People from Palo Alto, California People from Braintree, Massachusetts American people of Chinese descent 1985 births Living people 21st-century American physicians The Harker School alumni 21st-century American women Zuckerberg family 21st-century women philanthropists