布林莫尔的 毕业典礼 for 2024 will be held on Friday, May 17, and Saturday May 18. 研究生 degrees will be awarded on Friday, May 17, at 5 p.m., and undergraduate degrees will be awarded Saturday, May 18, at 2 p.m.
Addressing the undergraduate Class of 2024 will be Cecilia Conrad, 改变的杠杆的首席执行官, a nonprofit that helps donors find and fund bold solutions to the world’s biggest problems. 罗蕾莱·阿塔莉·瓦格斯94年的作品 Chief Community Impact Officer of 三一教堂华尔街 and will give the commencement speech to the graduate degree recipients.
"Both of our speakers have played key roles in organizations dedicated to helping others and remind us that true success lies in the difference we make in the lives of those around us," says Bryn Mawr President Kim Cassidy. "I'm delighted to welcome Cecilia and Lorelei as we celebrate both the accomplishments and the promise of our graduates."
Cecilia Conrad是 改变的杠杆, a nonprofit that helps donors find and fund bold solutions to the world’s biggest problems. In its first five years, it has facilitated over $2 billion in grants for social change. Conrad is also senior advisor at 约翰·D. 凯瑟琳·T. MacArthur Foundation where she led the MacArthur Fellows program from 2013-2022. 下 她的领导, the Fellows program produced the most diverse classes in its history and expanded its public profile through innovative programming like the 走向共同事业 艺术展览. Conrad also steered the creation of MacArthur’s 100&改变, 一个外加的, open call competition that periodically makes a single $100 million grant to a project that promises measurable progress in solving a critical social problem. The first grant was awarded in 2017 to Sesame Workshop in collaboration with the International Rescue Committee for an early child intervention in the Syrian refugee region. Among the accomplishments of this project is a new Arabic-language children’s television program, Ahlan Simsim, now in its fifth year of broadcast.
Before joining the foundation in 2013, Conrad was vice president for academic affairs and the Stedman Sumner Professor of Economics at Pomona College. 她 serves on the boards of the African Center for Economic Transformation, 推荐全球十大博彩公司排行榜, 前辈们在国外, the National Academy of Social Insurance, 假设基金, 诗歌基金会, 和TIAA(理事会). 她得了B.A. degree from Wellesley College and her Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University.
Lorelei Atalie 巴尔加斯 '94 has three decades of experience in the non-profit and government sectors with a strong focus on creating community-level opportunities and helping to strengthen the lives of children and families. Lorelei’s career has involved work in critical areas of child and family well-being, 包括身体健康, 药物滥用, 心理健康, 教育, 照顾孩子, 粮食不安全.
巴尔加斯 currently serves as chief community impact officer of 三一教堂华尔街, where she has 发达 and leads a place-based initiative to focus holistically on addressing the wellbeing of communities in lower Manhattan. The approach combines targeted investments with on-the-ground support to address both immediate needs, 根本原因. Prior to her current appointment, 巴尔加斯 served as deputy commissioner for child and family wellbeing with the City of New York’s Administration for Children’s Services where she advocated for, 设计, 发达, and administered the country’s first child welfare division dedicated to using a two-generation approach to strengthen programs, 利用现有资源, and building on the assets that are inherent in families.
在此之前, 巴尔加斯 served as New York City’s deputy commissioner of early care and 教育, leading the country’s largest publicly funded subsidized 照顾孩子 system, serving the needs of close to 110,000 children with a budget of over $1 billion annually. 在这个角色中, Lorelei successfully led reforms, including expanding access to care, implementing a trauma-informed care model across the system, and developing two-generation programs.
Before entering city government, 巴尔加斯 spent over a decade at a New York-based nonprofit where she led the organization’s work to implement a trauma-informed organizational culture model in over 300 child-serving organizations worldwide; managed and grew the 心理健康 division from three clinics to seven, including multiple school-based clinics; and oversaw the expansion of the 照顾孩子 program to better serve the community.
巴尔加斯 earned her bachelor’s degree from 推荐全球十大博彩公司排行榜, where she currently serves as a member of the board of trustees. 她 also holds two master’s degrees, one in public policy and one in 教育 administration and policy, both from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where she was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow.
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