Experience

Leap Fund

• United States
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-Founder & Advisor

  • Jul 2018 - Present

  Leap Fund is a financial solution that lifts people over the benefits cliff, creating a path towards self-sufficiency and financial independence. The benefits cliff is a major glitch in the system where low-income families who earn more money or change their household size or status end up worse off due to the fact that public benefits programs phase out faster than income rises. Most families only realize they've hit this cliff after it's already happened and caused devastating effects. Find out more at www.myleapfund.com. Show less



Strategy and Impact

• New York, NY

• Independent Consultant

  • Jan 2014 - Present

  As a professional with over 20 years of experience in research, assessment, writing and presenting, as well as an educational background in architecture and urban studies, I assist organizations with program design and management, research and writing, report development and production, training, and leadership development. Throughout all my work, I have brought together a diverse range of people including academics, activists, funders and foundations, community members, and nonprofit professionals to explore such issues as how to build the next generation of leadership, engage clients and constituents in social change, and build a systems approach into social service work. Show less



School of Visual Arts

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Associate Faculty, Design for Social Innovation

  • Aug 2017 - Aug 2019

  I co-led the guest lecture series for the Design for Social Innovation masters program at SVA. This course exposes students to the lives and ideas of some of the most important people defining social innovation in the world today. Speakers are curated to inspire new thinking and dialogue on various opportunities for careers in social innovation, and how design plays a role in each of them. I co-led the guest lecture series for the Design for Social Innovation masters program at SVA. This course exposes students to the lives and ideas of some of the most important people defining social innovation in the world today. Speakers are curated to inspire new thinking and dialogue on various opportunities for careers in social innovation, and how design plays a role in each of them.



Robin Hood

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Design Fellow, Blue Ridge Labs @ Robin Hood

  • Jun 2018 - Oct 2018

  Blue Ridge Labs is a place where technologists and communities work together to explore and build new solutions for low-income New Yorkers. As a design fellow, I spent the summer helping to launch and grow a tech platform focused on working families that addresses economic inequality in NYC. Blue Ridge Lab is a program of Robin Hood – New York’s largest poverty-fighting organization. Blue Ridge Labs is a place where technologists and communities work together to explore and build new solutions for low-income New Yorkers. As a design fellow, I spent the summer helping to launch and grow a tech platform focused on working families that addresses economic inequality in NYC. Blue Ridge Lab is a program of Robin Hood – New York’s largest poverty-fighting organization.



Building Movement Project

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director of Research & Documentation

  • Jan 2012 - Dec 2013

  As Director of Research & Documentation for the Building Movement Project, Caroline oversaw the Project’s research and learning on social service and social change, the use of a commons approach to movement building, and generational changes in leadership, including multigenerational and alternative structures. In addition, she coordinated the documentation of on-the-ground examples in these areas.

• Director of Leadership & Communciations

  • Apr 2008 - Dec 2011

  As the Director of Leadership & Communications for the Building Movement Project, Caroline directed the Project’s work on generational changes in leadership in addition to coordinating BMP communications. She is the author of "What Works: Developing Successful Multigenerational Leadership" and co-author of "Structuring Leadership: Alternative models for distributing power and decision-making in nonprofit organizations".

• Program Associate

  • Sep 2004 - Apr 2008



Ms. Foundation for Women

• United States
• Philanthropic Fundraising Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Program Associate

  • Dec 2002 - Sep 2004

• Program Assistant

  • Apr 2002 - Dec 2002