About Catalina

Catalina Ruiz-Healy, Founder of Camino Impact Partners, is a nationally respected philanthropy and social impact strategist with 30 years of experience advising ultra-high-net-worth individuals, multigenerational families, and foundations on how to give with purpose, clarity, and lasting impact. With a career spanning philanthropy, social innovation, and nonprofit leadership, she is known for her ability to translate values into strategy and vision into results. Catalina has counseled some of the most influential philanthropic families and institutions in the country—ranging from private and family foundations and civic organizations to Fortune 50 companies—consistently delivering bold, measurable, and equity-driven outcomes across a variety of issue areas..

Most recently as Vice President at Hirsch Philanthropy Partners (now Third Plateau), one of the nation’s premier philanthropy advisory firms, Catalina led engagements for families stewarding over $300 million in philanthropic assets. She is a trusted guide for clients across the philanthropic lifecycle—from making their first gift after a liquidity event, to engaging the next generation, to designing thoughtful, high-impact spend-down plans. Her approach integrates strategic rigor with emotional intelligence, offering families discretion, insight, and a clear path to meaningful change.

Catalina is a Certified 21/64 Advisor, bringing specialized expertise in facilitating multigenerational conversations and aligning diverse voices around shared values and goals. A former nonprofit founder and CEO, she built and scaled an award-winning edtech platform focused on educational equity—giving her firsthand understanding of the challenges nonprofits face and what it takes to fuel transformative giving from the other side of the table.

Her leadership extends beyond advisory roles: she has held public office as a Commissioner on the San Francisco Board of Elections, advanced statewide policy as a Fellow with the Women’s Foundation of California, and served on numerous nonprofit boards. Catalina holds a Master’s in International Affairs from Columbia University and a B.A. from Pomona College. She is bilingual in English and Spanish and can bring a multicultural lens to all her work.

Catalina brings joy, integrity, and ambition to every partnership—helping philanthropists transform good intentions into enduring impact. She is deeply committed to building a more just and generous world—one relationship at a time.