Meet Tricha Shivas

Tricha Shivas joined the Foundation for Sarcoidosis Research (FSR) in December 2020 as the Chief of Staff and Strategy. Tricha has 20 years of non-profit leadership experience dedicated to improving the lives of those with complex chronic illness and rare diseases. Throughout her career, she has built comprehensive patient engagement and awareness programming, developed robust diversity, inclusion, and equity programming, worked with the NIH, FDA, academic researchers, and industry to expand therapeutic pipelines and to increase patient centricity in drug development. Tricha has played a pivotal role in FSR’s Ignore No More Campaign focused on awareness and increased clinical trial diversity.  

Tricha received her bachelor's degree in American Studies from Albright College and her Masters of Bioethics from University of Pennsylvania. She currently serves on Drexel University’s Health Administration Department Advisory Council, is on Global Skin’s Rare Disease Steering Committee and is past co-chair the NIAMS Coalition.