Sonia Delen

Senior Vice President of Bank of America

President of Filipino Food Movement

Forner Trustee, State Bar CA

Film Executive Producer

Non-Profits director

2022 Top50 Women Leaders San Francisco

Sonia Delen (UP Foreign Service) is a Lifetime Member, a Board member since 2013, and past president of UPAASF (2019-2021), where she co-founded the UPAASF Filipino Immersion Summer Camp and spearheaded a $2.85 million COVID-19 testing kit donation to the UP-Philippine General Hospital in partnership with the Apl.de.ap Foundation. In 2023, Sonia received the prestigious Gawad Oblation Award from the University of the Philippines, the highest award given by UP to outstanding alumni and UP friends. Sonia was honored as one of 2023 Distinguished UP Alumni Awards by UP Alumni Association in America.

Professionally, Sonia serves as Director at Bank of America Global Leasing. In 2018, she was appointed by Governor Jerry Brown as the first Filipina American non-lawyer, public member of the State Bar of California’s Board of Trustees. She also served as an appointee to the Health Professions Education Foundation's Trustees.

As co-founder and president of the Filipino Food Movement, Sonia works to promote Filipino cuisine globally. She chairs the Campaign for Filipino Children of Apl.de.ap Foundation International to help eradicate preventable blindness caused by Retinopathy of Prematurity in the Philippines. Additionally, she is a film executive producer and a contributing author to the Filipina Women’s Network (FWN) DISRUPT(volumes 1.0, 4.0 and 5.0).

Sonia was recognized as one of the Top 50 Women Leaders of San Francisco by Women We Admire (2022) and selected as one of The Outstanding Filipinos in America by TOFA Awards (2020 & 2023). Sonia has also been honored by FWN as one of the 100 Most Influential Filipina Women in both the U.S. (2007) and globally (2013).

Sonia shares her achievements with the unwavering support of her husband, Christopher Fitzsimmons, and their children: David, Justin, and Matthew. In her leisure time, she enjoys classical music, opera, golf, and traveling.