India Pierce Lee

India Pierce Lee joined the Cleveland Foundation in 2006 as program director for neighborhoods, housing and community development.

• Oversees the foundation’s Greater University Circle Initiative, a multi-institutional anchor-based partnership
• Served on the Design Panel for the National Endowment for the Arts in 2010
• Received the 2014 Distinguished Alumna Award for outstanding contributions to the social work profession, the community and the Mandel School as well as keys to the City of Cleveland from former Mayor Michael White and the City of Dallas-Fort Worth by former Mayor Jewell Woods
• Appointed by Mayor Frank Jackson to the City of Cleveland’s Civil Service Commission
• Graduate of the Louis Stokes Fellowship in Community Development from the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve University, where she obtained a Master of Science degree in social administration community engagement
• Completed a Loeb Fellowship from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University in 2009

Last updated 8/25/16