Cecilia A. Conrad is CEO of Lever for Change and a Managing Director at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation where she leads the MacArthur Fellows program and its 100&Change competition. Before joining the foundation in 2013, Conrad was Vice President for Academic Affairs and the Stedman Sumner Professor of Economics at Pomona College (2009-2012) and Interim Dean of the Faculty at Scripps College (2007-2009).  Dr. Conrad is a member of the board of trustees of Bryn Mawr College, The Poetry Foundation, the National Academy of Social Insurance, IES Abroad, the Future Leaders Foundation, and the Sylvia Bozeman and Rhonda Hughes EDGE Foundation.  She is a trustee emerita of Muhlenberg College.   She received her B.A. degree from Wellesley College and her Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University.  She is the recipient of National Economic Association’s 2018 Samuel V. Westerfield Award, the National Urban League’s 2008 Women of Power Award, and was 2005 CASE California Professor of the Year.