Sonya Trac
Comerica Bank, VP and Regional External Affairs Manager - California and Michigan
She serves as the National AAPI Business Development Manager supporting AAPI business and community leaders across the bank’s national footprint. She is responsible for fostering relationships with nonprofit partners and businesses to support Comerica’s mission of raising the expectations of what a bank can be in the community. Some of her main priorities are to build meaningful community partner relationships, promote community development, and to build out a robust volunteer program focusing on financial education and workforce development training in Comerica’s Northern California market. Trac spent three years managing Employment Programs for young people in foster care at Silicon Valley Children’s Fund and TeenForce. Prior to that, she spent over a decade in various banking roles at Wells Fargo Bank, Bank of America, and Bridge Bank, N.A. Her civic and community service work has been primarily with Santa Clara County’s Department of Family and Children Services where she supported several initiatives over the last 15 years. She served as Vice President on the Department of Family and Children Services’ Youth Advisory Board advocating for dependency youth in the child welfare system. Further, Trac served 3 years as a CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocate) advocating for youth in the foster care system in Santa Clara County, and spent an additional 5 years mentoring justice-engaged and homeless youth receiving services from Bill Wilson Center and Opportunity Youth Academies of the Santa Clara County Office of Education. Trac currently serves of the board for APA Family Support Services and is a member of the Advisory Board Committee for Inner City Advisors (ICA) headquartered in Oakland, California. She earned a bachelor of science degree in Justice Studies from San Jose State University, and holds a master’s in public administration degree from University of San Francisco.