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We deeply regret the loss of Lisa Sullivan, who passed away October 1, 2001. She will be missed. Please click here for memorial information about this remarkable colleague and dear friend. The founder and president of LISTEN, Lisa served as the fellowship development consultant for the Next Generation Leadership Program of the Rockefeller Foundation. Prior to her work with the Foundation, Lisa was director of the Field Division at the Children's Defense Fund where she founded the Black Student Leadership Network. During her tenure at the Children's Defense Fund, she also founded the Ella Baker Child Policy Training Institute, which effectively trained more than 650 black college students in community organizing, youth development and child policy. Lisa, a 1983
honors graduate of Clark College (now Clark Atlanta University)
in Atlanta, Georgia, received her Master in Philosophy degree in
Political Science from Yale University. Lisa has also served as
an adjunct faculty member at Wesleyan University, Smith College
and Greater Hartford Community and Technical College. Her writings
on community organizing, social capital, leadership, civil society
and race relations have been published in numerous national magazines,
newspapers and journals. A native Washingtonian, she was a Doctoral
Learner in the Leadership and Philanthropy Program at the Union
Institute in Cincinnati, Ohio. Lisa's leadership
has been recognized nationally by the National Urban League, The
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and
the National
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