Aaron DeLaO, MPA

VP, Impact, United Way for Greater Austin

Aaron DeLaO is a progressive social service and public health executive. He has led community needs assessments, planned, and opened new community health centers, overseen food security services, and built collaborations and partnerships across community organizations to create and strengthen health and human service programming in Central Texas.

He has worked to increase the impact health and social service programming has on the lives of those he has served and in so doing, aims to create a coordinated, cohesive social service ecosystem rooted in equity for our community. During his career, he has had oversight of a 250-partner network of community food pantries, community health centers, community health services, mental health services, care coordination services, ACA Marketplace insurance enrollment assistance programming, nutrition and health education programming, COVID-19 intervention programming, and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion efforts.

He has also been responsible for employee wellness, with his team having won awards for this work from the Austin Mayor’s Health and Fitness Council. He is a skilled fundraiser, attaining millions of dollars in federal and foundation grants and cultivating relationships with individual donors to strengthen the programs he has overseen.

Currently, Aaron serves as the Vice President, Impact with United Way for Greater Austin where he oversees education, early childhood, and economic advancement work in Central Texas. This includes advancing systems change through coalitions, programs, and community investment grant-making.

Aaron holds a master’s degree in public administration from the University of Texas Pan American (now Rio Grande Valley) in Edinburgh and a bachelor’s degree in government from the University of Texas at Austin. He also serves on nonprofit boards around Austin including Mission Capital, Rally Austin, and serves as board secretary for the PTA at his son’s school.