Advisory Board Members
Gloria Schoch
Gloria Schoch is executive director of The VF Foundation and director of global impact at VF Corporation, a global leader in apparel and footwear. Some of VF’s iconic brands include The North Face, VANS, Timberland, Smartwool, and Dickies. Gloria oversees The VF Foundation’s strategic vision to advance the company’s philanthropic commitment to environmental justice, conservation, and education and workforce development, with an inclusion, equity, and diversity lens for the betterment of people and planet. Active in the community, Gloria is board chair of the Latino Community Foundation of Colorado. She also serves on VF’s Council to Advance Racial Equity (CARE), is a board member of the Denver Metro Chamber Leadership Foundation and the Downtown Denver Partnership, and sits on the advisory board of the University of Colorado School of Public Affairs. Gloria is a 2019 McKinsey Academy CiviCO Fellow. She was honored with the Latinas First Foundation’s Trailblazer Award (2019), Denver Business Journal’s Outstanding Woman in Business Award (2018), and recognized by the Colorado Women’s Chamber of Commerce as one of the Top 25 Most Powerful Women in Colorado and Denver Metro Chamber Champion (2018). She also received the Advocate of the Year Award from MillerCoors Women’s Employee Resource Group (2017) and was recognized as a Young Hispanic Corporate Achiever in 2012 by the Hispanic Association on Corporate Responsibility. She also is an American Marshall Memorial Fellow of the German Marshall Fund of the United States (2012). In 2009, Gloria received the Colorado Women’s Chamber of Commerce’s Young Professional of the Year Award and was named one of “Forty Under Forty” by the Denver Business Journal. She is also a graduate of Leadership Denver (2009). Gloria holds a B.S. in anthropology and business from the University of Colorado at Boulder and an M.S. in public administration management from the University of Colorado at Denver.