The Seattle-based Marguerite Casey Foundation is set on the mission to empower communities by supporting emerging and established leaders, scholars, and initiatives to shift the balance of power in society. In this conversation, we welcome Marguerite Casey Foundation's President and CEO, Dr. Carmen Rojas. Dr. Rojas is the youngest and only Latina President of a nationally endowed U.S. foundation and a nationally recognized economic and worker justice leader. We are calling all community changemakers to this conversation!
Diversity Reboot Summit
Using Philanthropy to Drive Economic Change
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Meet The Speaker
Dr. Carmen Rojas
President and CEO, Marguerite Casey Foundation
She is a leader, dreamer and truth-teller. Prior to joining Marguerite Casey Foundation, Dr. Carmen Rojas was the Co-Founder and former CEO of The Workers Lab, an innovation lab that invests in entrepreneurs, community organizers, and government leaders to create replicable and revenue-generating solutions that improve conditions for low-wage workers. For more than 20 years, Carmen has worked with foundations, financial institutions, and nonprofits to improve the lives of working people across the United States.
Prior to building The Workers Lab, Carmen was the Acting Director of Collective Impact at Living Cities. She supported 22 of the largest foundations and financial institutions in the world to invest in improving economic opportunity for low-income people by supporting projects in the fields of economic and workforce development, energy efficiency, and asset building. From 2008 to 2011, Carmen was the Director of Strategic Programs at the Mitchell Kapor Foundation, where she oversaw the foundation’s Green Access and Civic Engagement programs. Alongside her work at the foundation, Carmen also taught in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to this, Carmen was the Coordinator of the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency’s Task Force on African American Out-Migration to address African American displacement from the city.