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About Carnegie Corporation
Michele Cahill
Vice President, National Programs, and Program Director, Urban Education
As
Vice-President, National Program Coordination and Director of Urban
Education, Michele Cahill is responsible for Corporation strategies
emphasizing domestic, particularly urban education, priorities.
Prior to rejoining Carnegie Corporation, Cahill held the position of Senior Counselor to the Chancellor for Education Policy in the Bloomberg administration and played a pivotal role in the revamped New York City Department of Education under Chancellor Joel Klein. In addition to her leadership position in education policy, Cahill also served as Senior Executive for the Division of Youth Development and as a member of the Senior Leadership Team for Children First, the full-scale reorganization and reform of the New York City public schools.
Cahill spent three years with Carnegie Corporation as Senior Program Officer in the Education Division. She was one of the first individuals hired by Vartan Gregorian to help shape the education priorities and strategies for his tenure as president. At the Corporation, Cahill focused on the high school as a lever of change. She was responsible for the vision and the establishment of Schools for a New Society, the Corporation's seven-city urban school reform experiment. She also created developed the New York City school reform effort known as New Century High Schools, a partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Open Society Institute. Cahill established the Task Force on Urban District Reform, and will continue to shape a reform agenda that focuses on district reform, and the challenge of globalization and income inequality on education and American democracy.
Cahill first joined the Corporation in 1999 from the Fund for the City of New York where she was Vice President and Director of the Youth Development Institute. Earlier, she served as Vice President and Director, School and Community Services, at the Academy for Educational Development; as Consultant on Urban Poverty to the Ford Foundation; as Director of the Communities Project at the Women's Education Institute; and as Director of the Urban Studies Program and Assistant Professor at Saint Peter's College in Jersey City, New Jersey.
Cahill has been published widely on education reform, urban affairs and economic and women's issues. She pursued doctoral studies in social policy and planning at Columbia University, has a Masters of Arts in Urban Affairs from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and a B.A. in Urban Affairs from Saint Peter's College, New Jersey. Cahill was honored with the United States Department of Education Mina Shaughnessy Scholar award in 1980.
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