Mark Zuckerberg’s wife, Priscilla Chan, is an American philanthropist and former pediatrician born on February 24, 1985, in Braintree, Massachusetts, United States.
She and her husband, Mark Zuckerberg, launched the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative in December 2015.
Who Is Mark Zuckerberg’s Wife, Priscilla Chan?
Priscilla Chan is an American philanthropist and pediatrician.
Priscilla’s parents were Chinese refugees who fled Vietnam in boats, and she grew up speaking both Cantonese and English.
In 2003 Priscilla graduated as class valedictorian, the highest-ranking student among her peers, and she was voted “class genius” by her fellow students.
Priscilla then attended Harvard University, where she met and began dating Mark Zuckerberg, who is the co-founder, and CEO of Facebook.
After graduating with a BA in biology in 2007, Priscilla continued her education, and in 2015, she finished her pediatric residency.
The couple dated for nine years before they decided to tie the knot in 2012.
On December 1, 2015, Zuckerberg and Chan announced the birth of their first daughter, Max.
On August 28, 2017, they announced the birth of their second child August.
Chan And Mark Met In A Strange Way
The two started dating in 2003, after meeting in line for the bathroom at a party at Zuckerberg’s Harvard University fraternity when he was a sophom*ore, and she was a freshman.
“He was this nerdy guy who was just a little bit out there,” Chan recalled to the New Yorker in 2010 of meeting her future spouse. “I remember he had these beer glasses that said ‘pound include beer dot H.’ It’s a tag for C++. It’s like college humor but with a nerdy, computer-science appeal.”
Chan, who grew up the daughter of immigrants in suburban Massachusetts, told the outlet in 2018 that she learned quickly that she and Zuckerberg came from very different worlds.
“Fifty percent of people go to college from the high school I went to. You could learn how to be a carpenter or a mechanic,” she said.
“I was just like, ‘This person speaks a whole new language and lives in a framework that I’ve never seen before… Maybe there was some judgment on my part: ‘You don’t understand me because you went to [boarding school]. I had to realize early on that I was not going to change who Mark was.”
Zuckerberg and the pediatrician and philanthropist moved in together in September 2010, he wrote on Facebook at the time. In May 2012, they tied the knot in a surprise ceremony in their Palo Alto backyard.
A guest told PEOPLE that attendees thought the celebration was in honor of Chan’s medical school graduation — but it was their wedding.
“It was really cute,” the guest said. “Naturally people were surprised but happy.”
The ceremony took place just one day after Facebook went public.
“They share the same values and love and respect each other,” Zuckerberg’s sister Randi told PEOPLE at the time.
The billionaire gushed about Chan in 2016 while showing off his Time 100 Most Influential People cover, which he shared with his wife.
Priscilla Chan And Mark Zuckerberg Children
Priscilla Chan has two children with her husband, Mark Zuckerberg. They announced the birth of their daughter, Maxima Chan Zuckerberg, on December 1, 2015. On August 28, 2017, Chan gave birth to their second daughter, August.
Charity Work of Priscilla Chan
Priscilla started her residency as a pediatrician at San Francisco General Hospital. She warned her attending physician, “I want to tell you up front: I’m a crier,” according to the source.
That doesn’t mean you should confuse her emotions for weakness.
“There was this horrific fire, multiple kids getting burned really badly,” Ryan Padrez, the chief resident who oversaw Chan’s pediatric trauma work at the hospital.
“Priscilla was the first responder, at two in the morning, and she calls me on my phone, ‘Just start driving now, I’ll fill you in in the car.’ She was so calm under pressure, really quick thinking.”
Priscilla co-founded the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative with her husband in 2015. The nonprofit was founded “to leverage technology, community-driven solutions and collaboration to help solve some of society’s toughest challenges. Our mission is to build a more inclusive, just, and healthy future for everyone.”
As Co-CEO, Priscilla oversees an annual $700 million to 800 million.
“Giving back has been part of my life before I even met Mark,” Priscilla said.
On March 9, it was reported that Mark and Priscilla put $4.2 million into a jobs program for Hawaiin county residents where they own a $100m compound.
The program is called Rise to Work, and it was created in 2020 for residents of Kauai county who lost their jobs because of the pandemic.
Priscilla Chan Net Worth
Priscilla Chan Zuckerberg has an estimated net worth of $50 billion. Her husband, Mark Zuckerberg is the co-founder of Facebook, and CEO of Meta Platforms, Inc, established the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative in December 2015, pledged to transfer 99% of their Facebook shares, then valued at $45 billion.
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