News Release
May 12, 2004
Lumina Foundation announces promotions and reassignments
INDIANAPOLIS – Lumina Foundation for Education has announced the following promotions and reassignments, which take effect immediately.Promotions
Leah Meyer Austin, senior vice president for program and research
Holly McKiernan, senior vice president, general counsel and secretary
Shelley Lloyd, director of human resources and facilities
Jeanna Keller, program manager
Jill Kramer, program officer
Tina Gridiron Smith, program officer
Jill Wohlford, program analyst
Reassignments
Susan O. Conner, executive vice president, impact strategy
Robert C. Dickeson, senior vice president, policy & organizational learning
New Hire (effective July 1, 2004)
Caroline Altman, associate program officer
In announcing the staff changes, Martha D. Lamkin, Lumina Foundation president and chief executive officer, said, "These changes are intended to recognize the developing talents of newer staff and redeploy our senior leadership to address the more strategic challenges of advancing our mission of postsecondary education access and success."
Lamkin noted that, over the Foundation's three and a half year history, it has hired a number of able professionals who are ready to step into more demanding day-to-day grant making roles. Their promotions, Lamkin said, will free senior leaders to target other issues: how to pursue complex issues of cost related to postsecondary access, how to best inform policy makers on those issues and how to expand the Foundation's overall impact with available grant dollars.
Lamkin emphasized that the Foundation's commitment to research, innovative programs, communication and evaluation all remain vital to the Foundation's mission. "This reorganization focuses attention on critical components of our work to improve Lumina Foundation’s effectiveness in advancing its mission of increasing education access and success."
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About Lumina Foundation: Lumina Foundation for Education, an Indianapolis-based, private, independent foundation, strives to help people achieve their potential by expanding access and success in education beyond high school. Through research, grants for innovative programs and communication initiatives, Lumina Foundation addresses issues surrounding financial access and educational retention, and degree or certificate attainment — particularly among underserved student groups, including adult learners.
