Priscilla Chan Creating a New Future

Both Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg have a vision to create a future where people are interconnected and have a chance to use their talents. The couple is ambitious and open-minded, they just want to fix the many inequities that exist in the world and have the resources to make an impact.

Zuckerberg has already built a strong company that has altered the way people connect with Facebook. While Chan has become a pediatrician and devoted her life to caring for the health and wellbeing of young children.

The Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative has inspired many people all over the world, as the couple has “committed 99% of their wealth” from Facebook to improving different communities with education and health initiatives.

Chan was born in Massachusetts and was raised in Quincy, which is right outside of Boston. She was raised by Chinese refugees that left Vietnam on a boat. Priscilla met Zuckerberg while attending Harvard University and the rest is history.

The feminine name Priscilla is a Roman name that is a diminutive of Prisca, which is the feminine version of Priscus a Roman family name that means “ancient” in Latin. The name became common after Priscilla from the New Testament in the epistles, who was Aquila’s wife in Corinth for a bit.

Since the protestant reformation, the name has been popular as an English given name with the Puritans. In fact, the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow used the name in his poem “The Courtship of Miles Standish.”