Priscilla Chan
Priscilla Chan was born in Braintree, Massachusetts, United States on February 24th, 1985 and is the Family Member. At the age of 39, Priscilla Chan biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Priscilla Chan (born February 24, 1985), also known as Priscilla Chan Zuckerberg, is an American pediatrician and philanthropist.
She and her husband Mark Zuckerberg, the co-founder and CEO of Facebook, Inc., established the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative in December 2015, with a pledge to donate 99 percent of their Facebook shares, then valued at $45 billion.
She is a graduate of Harvard University and received her medical degree from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).
Personal life
Chan married Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg on May 19, 2012, the day after the site's IPO. 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 Buddhist.
Life and career
Chan was born in Braintree, Massachusetts, and grew up in Quincy, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston, Massachusetts. Her parents were Chinese immigrants from Vietnam who escaped the country in refugee boats. She grew up speaking Cantonese and interpreting for her grandparents. She has two younger siblings who were all born in the United States. Chan's father owned a restaurant in Massachusetts, but he sold it later to run a wholesale fish company in 2006. Chan was named "class genius" by her classmates and the Quincy High School valedictorian.
Chan began dating Mark Zuckerberg in 2003 and met him in Harvard University. She participated in the Franklin Afterschool Enrichment program while at Harvard. She taught science at the private Harker School for a year before starting medical school at the University of California, San Francisco in 2005, where she completed her pediatrics residency in 2015.
She is the first college graduate in her family.
In East Palo Alto, California, she co-founded "The Primary School," a non-profit group that would provide K-12 education as well as prenatal care. She is the school's board chair.