Maggie Lear: Board Chair

President at Frances Lear Foundation

New York, New York

Maggie Lear is the President of The Frances Lear Foundation, a family foundation that focuses on the environment, democracy, arts education, and criminal justice reform. She works as a volunteer at Bottomless Closet to empower low-income women as they make their way into the workforce. For the past eight years, she has been facilitating parent meetings in NYC’s Independent school system through Parents in Action. She is a Chair of the Youth Justice Funding Collaborative, a 21-year-old network of funders and activists who support organizations in New Orleans focused on decarceration. Maggie is a member of The Justice Fund at the New York Women’s Foundation as well as the FreeHer Fund at the Circle for Justice Innovations.