Pete Manzo is President & CEO of United Ways of California, which improves health, education and financial stability for low-income children and families by enhancing and coordinating the community impact and advocacy work of California’s United Ways.

Pete served as Director of Strategic Initiatives for Advancement Project, a civil rights organization that advances equity and expands opportunity for marginalized people and communities; Executive Director and General Counsel of the Center for Nonprofit Management, where he directed the expansion of the Center's information, training, consulting, technology and search and compensation services to nonprofits; and Directing Attorney of Community Development Programs for Public Counsel, the nation's largest pro bono law firm and the Los Angeles affiliate of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, where he represented nonprofit charitable organizations in a broad range of real property, corporate, tax and other transactional matters. Pete practiced real estate and corporate law in the private sector at Riordan & McKinzie, and Tuttle & Taylor, before moving into the nonprofit sector.

Pete is a graduate of Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley; he also is a graduate of the London School of Economics, where he received a Master's degree in Political Sociology, and the University of Notre Dame, where he received a Bachelor's degree in Government.