DONNA KALIKOW - EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, CENTER FOR PUBLIC LEADERSHIP AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY'S KENNEDY SCHOOL OF GOVERNMENT

Donna Kalikow began her role as Executive Director of the Center for Public Leadership in February 2007. For two years prior she directed the Center’s development and marketing efforts in addition to overseeing all special projects, such as the multi-million dollar National Preparedness Leadership Initiative (NPLI) and the Center’s partnership with U.S. News & World Report in identifying “America’s Best Leaders” and building a leadership confidence index.

Previously, she was elected to four terms on the Board of Selectmen in the Town of Brookline, spending three of those years as chair of the board. During her tenure, the board established its first fiscal policy program and built a senior center that serves a population of 8,000 seniors. She is a certified public accountant with 20 years of private sector experience.

In her Mission Recognition interview, Donna talks about how no one sector can solve the problems we face in the world today; enduring change will require collaboration, cooperation, ingenuity and creativity between and among the public, private and nonprofit sectors.


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