CEOLever for Change
Cecilia A. Conrad, Ph.D. is founder and CEO of Lever for Change and a Senior Advisor at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Dr. Conrad was formerly a Managing Director at the Foundation where her portfolio included the MacArthur Fellows program and 100&Change. Before joining the MacArthur Foundation, Conrad was Vice President for Academic Affairs and the Stedman Sumner Professor of Economics at Pomona College.
Current board memberships include TIAA (board of governors), the 2021-2024 Generosity Commission, Bryn Mawr College, the Poetry Foundation, the National Academy of Social Insurance, The Hypothesis Fund, The African Center for Economic Transformation, and IES Abroad. Conrad is a past president of the National Economic Association and the International Association for Feminist Economics and a trustee emerita of Muhlenberg College. She received her B.A. degree from Wellesley College and her Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University.