CAROL B. KELLERMAN

Carol B. Kellerman is the current Executive Director of Learning Leaders (previously, the New York City School Volunteer Program), an organization of 9,300 volunteers, which has served since its creation in1956 as a model for hundreds of other school volunteer programs nationwide. Learning Leaders recruits, screens and trains volunteers who provide individualized instructional support to approximately 140,000 New York City public school students (1 out of every 8 enrolled) in more than 750 schools citywide.

Ms. Kellerman has served New York City in leadership positions in government and the non-profit sector since the early 1980’s. After five years of law practice, she served as assistant and deputy commissioner of the New York City finance department and as a consultant to the commissioner of housing preservation and development. In 1987 she was staff director of the Mayor’s advisory task force on the homeless and principal author of its report, "Towards a Comprehensive Policy on Homelessness." As Executive Director of the Leonard N. Stern Foundation, she oversaw the growth of Homes for the Homeless, the largest non-profit transitional housing program for the families in the City, and started its sleep-away camping program for homeless children.

While in Washington, DC in the early 1990’s, Ms. Kellerman was Chief of Staff to NYC Congressman Charles E. Schumer and later, in both Washington and on her return to New York, was a principal with Podesta Associates, government relations and public affairs consultants.

Ms. Kellerman serves on the Board of Homes for the Homeless, and the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute and in the Council of Advocates of Planned Parenthood of New York City. She is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School.

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