Zach Slobig

Zach Slobig is an editorial director in Bridgespan’s San Francisco office. He works with teams to develop feature articles, opinion pieces, and multimedia storytelling that make Bridgespan’s research and insights broadly accessible to the social sector.

Zach’s recent publications include: “Field Building on Multiple Timescales: Strategies to Meet the Moment While Building Toward a Better Future”(Bridgespan.org, 2026); “The Power of Collaboration at a Time of Volatility in Global Health and Development” (Bridgespan.org, 2025); “The Impact and Opportunity of Investing in Native Communities” (Bridgespan.org, 2025); “An Inside Look at the Partnership Between Funders and Field Catalysts” (Bridgespan.org, 2025); “Learning from Nonprofits and NGOs That Have Put Large, Flexible Grants to Work” (Bridgespan.org, 2024); “Want to Fund in the Global South? Philanthropic Collaboratives Can Help” (Bridgespan.org, 2024); “How Philanthropy Can Narrow the Racial Wealth Gap” (Bridgespan.org, 2024); “Policy Incrementalism and How Philanthropy’s Support Can Turn Small Sustained Steps into Big Impact” (Bridgespan.org, 2024); “Using All the Tools in the Toolkit: Funding Advocacy for Social Change” (Bridgespan.org, 2024); and “The Trust-Based Philanthropy Conundrum” (Bridgespan.org, 2024).

Prior to joining Bridgespan, he was a writer and editor at the Skoll Foundation, where he worked across a range of initiatives. Earlier in his career, he worked on the staffs of Agence France-Presse, WIRED, National Public Radio, and GOOD. Before entering journalism, he served with both City Year and the Los Angeles Conservation Corps. He earned a Master of Journalism from the University of California, Berkeley, and a BA in ethnographic sociology, summa cum laude, from the University of California, Los Angeles, and began his academic career at Santa Monica College.

Zach is drawn to stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things. He has written documentary news features and story-edited award-winning independent documentaries screened internationally. In 2009, he cowrote 180° South, a feature film about land conservation framed through a pan-American adventure from California to Chilean Patagonia. Shortly afterward, he and his wife traveled the Pacific coastline in a pickup truck loaded with camping gear and surfboards. They now live with their daughter in San Francisco.