An Thuy Chu, MS

An Thuy Chu currently serves as the Grant Manager of Penn’s Center for Guaranteed Income Research (CGIR). With over 12 years of experience in Nonprofit Accounting and Finance, she is dedicated to overseeing the financial integrity of grant programs. Her expertise lies in budget monitoring, compliance reporting, and accurate financial statement preparation to ensure adherence to diverse funding agency regulations. Before joining SP2, An was a Fiscal Director at Urban Health Solutions and then an Accounting Manager at HIAS Pennsylvania, where she established and led their first in-house finance team, transitioning from outsourcing contractors, to maintain the fiscal integrity and ensure the responsible use of donor dollars. She has experience working with complex community grant portfolios with a proven track record of ensuring compliance and efficiency, funded by DHS, USCIS, HRSA, NIH, DOJ, PCCD, City of Philadelphia and private foundations which provided essential legal, social and healthcare services to low-income immigrants, refugees, asylums, HIV/AIDS patients and victims of domestic violence. An earned a Bachelor Degree in Finance from Academy of Finance in Vietnam, and earned a Master Degree in Accounting from Wilmington University. Outside of work, An really enjoys cooking, traveling, reusing and recycling.