Jul 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 9 mos

Mar 2020 – Jul 2023 · 3 yrs 4 mos

Sep 2015 – Mar 2020 · 4 yrs 6 mos

• Serves as Project Director for research-based initiatives of the Research and Education department.
• Seeks to expand the RAC's public voice and role through talks, publications (traditional and digital), conference presentations, and other means of public outreach. Performs extensive educational outreach and networking within the areas touched by philanthropy and civil society, including preparing lectures, seminars, and conferences.

Jan 2014 – Jan 2018 · 4 yrs

• "Do Grants Always Have to Make Sense? An Exploration of 'Contradictory' Grantmaking." June 2018. Ford Foundation.
• "'Resources of Mind, Money, and Skill:' A Half-Century of Ford Foundation Investments in Urban Programs." February 2018. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
• "Philanthropic Contributions to Gender Equality, 1950-1980." January 2018. The Ford Foundation.
• "'The $500 Million Weekend': The Ford Foundation Kickstarts Post-War American Higher Education" December 2017. The Ford Foundation.
• “‘Deux fléaux: le boche et la tuberculose’: la Fondation Rockefeller et le développement du modèle philanthropique.” April 2017. Conference on Philanthropy and World War I. Musée de la Grande Guerre, Meaux, France.
• "The Uses of History in Philanthropy" April 2017. National Council on Public History Annual Conference.
• "Eighty Years of Strategic Planning and Evaluation at the Ford Foundation" March 2017. Rockefeller Archive Center.
• Panelist, MLA's Connected Academics Proseminar on Careers in the Humanities March 2017. American Council of Learned Societies.
• "Twentieth-Century Philanthropic Engagement with the Private Sector" January 2017. Rockefeller Archive Center.
• "The Ford Foundation and the Civil Rights Movement: Support, Moderation, or Control?" November 2016. Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action.
• "Foundations and the Professionalization of Business Education" October 2016. Rockefeller Archive Center.
• "An American Foundation Response to the Post-War Refugee Crisis in Europe" June 2016. Panel: "Human Rights Crises in Europe and Beyond." International Society for Third-Sector Research Conference, Stockholm, Sweden.
• "Creating a Civil Society Space in Latin America, 1966-1974" July 2014. Panel: "The Role of Philanthropy in Civil Society Under Siege." International Society for Third-Sector Research Conference, Muenster, Germany.

Sep 2013 – Aug 2015 · 1 yr 11 mos

• As a member of the Research and Education Department, the Program Officer works with center staff and staff of the organizations whose records are held in the archives. Responsibilities include:
• working with departmental staff to plan and organize scholarly conferences and workshops;
• participating in the development of education programs for local schools, universities, colleges, and nonprofit organizations;
• helping to organize the center’s professional development programs at such organizations as Philanthropy NY and the Council on Foundations;
• participating in center-organized sessions at professional and scholarly associations; and
• collaborating with archival staff as they work to gain greater intellectual control over the newly acquired Ford Foundation collection through initiatives to publicize this and other new collections, responding to queries about content, interacting with scholars working in these collections, and generating ideas for conferences and workshops.