Rana Sampson
Vice President, Development and Marketing

Rana Sampson is the Vice President for Development and Marketing for the San Diego Center for Children, a 124-year old nonprofit helping children thrive whose trauma, abuse or mental health challenges delay their ability to succeed. The Center is the oldest children's charity in San Diego and provides critically needed services for special needs children. Rana loves the children the Center helps and she appreciates all the efforts of volunteers and donors to help these children succeed.

Prior to her work at the Center, Rana was an international crime consultant. Her work took her throughout the United States and other countries. She spent more than 25 years working with police, city administrators, schools, universities, and community groups on policing strategies and crime reduction. She is the author of numerous U.S. Department of Justice publications on reducing specific crime and safety problems, such as domestic violence, bullying in schools, acquaintance rape of college students, and even drug dealing in privately owned apartment complexes. Rana is a founding member of the Center for Problem-Oriented Policing, the national "go to" Center for crime reduction strategies (www.popcenter.org).

Early in her career, Rana was a patrol officer, undercover narcotics officer and patrol sergeant with the New York City Police Department and was awarded the National Improvement of Justice Award for her work. Rana is active in the San Diego community and is involved with a number of volunteer efforts in support of children, as well as the arts.

Rana has a B.A. from Barnard College, Columbia University and a law degree from Harvard Law School.