Erin Baudo Felter

Vice President, Social Impact

Erin Baudo Felter is the Vice President of Social Impact at Okta and leads Okta for Good, the company's corporate social impact initiative. She is charged with leveraging Okta’s most important assets – its people, products and financial resources – to accelerate the impact of mission-driven organizations around the world. Erin’s leadership of Okta for Good includes leveraging the Pledge1% model to invest money, technology, and time back into the community; exposing employees to issues and empowering them to take action; and enabling NGOs to improve their digital capabilities to better serve their communities. She is also part of a group of leaders transforming tech philanthropy, redefining the relationships between companies and communities through radical collaboration with partners in every sector.

Erin has worked at the intersection of business and social impact for over 15 years and has held various corporate social impact roles at Zynga, Yahoo and Warner Bros. She holds an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management and a BA from the University of Texas at Austin. She is personally passionate about equity, economic opportunity and empowering future leaders and serves on the advisory board for GenesysWorks Bay Area. She lives in Berkeley with her husband and two young children.

Introducing Okta for Good’s First Impact Report

When Okta took the 1% pledge in 2016, we founded our social impact arm, Okta for Good, with a mission to strengthen the connections between people, technology, and community. The importance of these connections has never been more clear than over the last year — when we experienced a global pandemic, rising inequality, and global calls for racial…

Okta for Good’s Nonprofit Technology Initiative: Announcing $1M+ Grant Round

As we kick off the new year, Okta for Good’s mission to strengthen the connections between people, technology, and community has never been more critical. In the face of issues like the COVID-19 pandemic and pervasive racial injustice, we are entering 2021 with a profound sense of urgency to invest in civil society around the world. Leveraging…

Driving Impact and Empowering Nonprofits Through our $10 Million Commitment

It has been an unexpected year. From COVID-19 and global calls for racial justice, to catastrophic fires from Australia to the West Coast of the U.S., we are living in unprecedented and challenging times. We are seeing continuous, urgent, and growing needs across the globe. For many of us, the last few months have been a difficult journey, but…

Nonprofits Should Be As Powerful As Their Missions: Our $10 Million Commitment

At Okta, we’ve always believed in the power of technology to transform and scale mission-driven organizations. It’s been the centerpiece of our work with Okta for Good since its founding. And when we say that our mission is to strengthen the connections between people, technology and community — we mean it. It’s the north star that continues to…

Okta for Good’s Response and Support During the COVID-19 Crisis

As COVID-19 continues to spread, we are learning in real-time the true impact of the pandemic, and navigating how to best respond to and support those in need. As a global company supporting thousands of employees and customers around the world, Okta’s response to this crisis is multi-faceted and ongoing. Okta for Good, our company’s social impact…

Turbocharge your Company's Charitable Spirit with Apps for Good

We’re living in a new age in the workforce. Philanthropy and day-to-day work activities are mixing in ways that can create real change in our communities. To that end, a new generation of apps is rising to meet the demand of employees participating in charitable activities. That’s one of the reasons Okta announced Apps for Good in 2019. As your…

Radical Collaboration for a Better Bay Area: Our New Partnership with Full Circle Fund

If you live or work in the Bay Area, you know the disparities outside our front doors are painful and growing. On one hand, the Silicon Valley economy is thriving. If the region were its own country, it would be one of the wealthiest ones in the world. The area’s success is due, in large part, to the booming tech sector. Many local tech startups…

Okta for Good in Uganda: Programs in Action

Okta believes in the power of mission-driven organizations to change our communities and our world. It’s why we provide small nonprofits free licenses for Okta products, and why we make preferential pricing available for every organization whose mission is to help others. With the help of the Okta for Good program, global non-governmental…

Creating Network Effects for Good: Introducing Apps for Good

When Okta was founded back in 2009, just getting to the cloud was a herculean effort for many organizations. We helped solve that with a catalogue of pre-integrated cloud applications that enabled our customers to securely connect to their applications — and we called it the Okta Application Network (OAN). Over time, more organizations moved to…

Giving Back as We Grow: Deepening Our Commitments to the Bay Area

We’re celebrating two exciting milestones at Okta this week: the company turns 10 and we’re officially open for business at our new San Francisco headquarters. When my team found out about the move a little over a year ago, aside from the obvious excitement, we had some important questions. What community issues were impacting our new neighborhood…