Joelle Deleveaux

Joelle Deleveaux is the strategy officer for innovation and discovery for Lumina Foundation, an independent, private foundation in Indianapolis committed to making learning opportunities beyond high school available to all. Working from Lumina’s Washington, D.C., office, she manages the foundation’s efforts to develop new strategies to respond to the vital question, education for what?

Through this work, she supports research, early-stage grantmaking, and incubation for work that connects higher education to key societal issues, including democracy preservation, civic engagement, and climate change. She also explores new topic areas, builds new relationships, and promotes systemic approaches to prepare people for work in an increasingly complex society.

Before joining Lumina, Deleveaux worked at CityWorks DC, where she led implementation of a registered apprenticeship program, created and expanded adult learning opportunities, developed new partnerships, and led projects related to employee development and retention. She also worked on a multi-year, mixed methods research project that examined school improvement, teacher training, and accountability systems in the Memphis, Tenn., public school system

Earlier in her career, Deleveaux managed client relationships at a national executive search firm and worked at CityBridge Education, where she focused on K-12 policy research and program evaluation. She also joined the team at Matriculate, part of the Bloomberg Philanthropies’ CollegePoint Initiative, to launch a college access and success program in 2015.

Deleveaux earned a bachelor’s degree in history from Princeton University and a master’s in education policy from George Washington University.