Renee DeCesare provides oversight and strategic direction of the development functions for the School Development team, a unit of eight that advances Boston College's academic priorities.  This includes the Carroll School of Management, the Connell School of Nursing, the Lynch School of Education and Human Development, the Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences, the School of Social Work, the School of Theology and Ministry, and the Woods College of Advancing studies as well as a number of other strategic initiatives and centers.

DeCesare joined Boston College in September 2002 as a development assistant for the principal giving team and since that time has been promoted to multiple roles in both development and alumni relations. In 2008, she became the senior associate director of affinity programs, a unit of seven that provided strategic oversight for all of the alumni affinity councils and programs including the two largest fundraising events – Pops on the Heights: The James and Barbara Cleary Scholarship Gala and the Wall Street Council Tribute Dinner. 

DeCesare joined the school development team as an associate director of the Carroll School of Management in 2013.  She was promoted to director of development of the Carroll School of Management in 2017.  

DeCesare came to Boston College after serving as a Teacher's Aide in early childhood education in the Randolph, Brookline, and Dedham Public School systems.

DeCesare earned her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Early Childhood Education from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.  She also earned her Master in Education in Curriculum and Instruction from the Lynch School of Education and Human Development while working at Boston College.

She currently resides in Norwood, Massachusetts with her husband and young son.