Meredith Ross was named the third President of the Leon Levy Foundation in 2022. She was previously Program Director, managing the Foundation’s grant portfolio across the six program domains: ancient world, arts and humanities, human rights, Jewish culture, nature and gardens, and neuroscience.
Prior to joining the Foundation in 2014, Ms. Ross spent fifteen years in nonprofit development, with a focus on fundraising from foundations and corporations. From 2010 to 2014, she was the director of foundation partnerships at the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship, a global educational nonprofit focused on entrepreneurship programs for youth in low-income communities. She previously held development roles at NetAid, an anti-poverty initiative, and at MassINC, an independent research, nonprofit journalism, and civic engagement organization. She received her BA from Colby College and her MBA from the Carroll School of Management, Boston College.
