Profile

Caitlin Ho is the Program Director for the Hunter College AANAPISI Project (HCAP), a student success program that is funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institutions (AANAPISI) grant program. Caitlin oversees HCAP’s programs and partnerships, manages reporting, and implements HCAP’s student leadership and transfer pipeline programs.

As HCAP’s Program Director, she works with HCAP’s team to deliver Asian American student-centered programs on: mental health, community research skills, multilingual language learner support, leadership, navigating college, and building faculty/staff capacity to better serve Asian American students.

She previously taught an HCAP-enhanced Asian American Studies undergraduate course (ASIAN 290) that integrated field internships for students at Asian American community organizations and Asian American studies curriculum. Caitlin also supports the BMCC-Hunter AANAPISI Bridge Initiative (ABI), a new partnership with Borough of Manhattan Community College that is funded by a collaborative AANAPISI grant.

Caitlin has worked over the past decade in higher education and philanthropy, with a focus on building capacity to serve communities of color. Prior to joining HCAP, Caitlin was the Grant and Loan Program Manager at the Hopewell Fund, where she provided resources to women’s health clinics. As the Senior Associate at NoVo Foundation, she managed national grant initiatives to end gender-based violence, advance economic justice, and build the leadership of young women of color. Caitlin received her M.S. in Urban Policy and Leadership from Hunter College and her B.A. in Ethnic Studies and Political Science from Brown University.