Michele Cahill

Ms. Michele Cahill is Vice President & Program Director at Carnegie Corp.
of New York.
Prior to rejoining Carnegie Corporation in 2007, she held the position of senior counselor to the chancellor for education policy in the New York City Department of Education under Chancellor Joel Klein.
She was a member of the Children First senior leadership team that oversaw and implemented the full-scale reorganization and reform of the New York City public schools.
She led a number of research and development projects and co-managed the cross-functional school restructuring processes for four years.
She spent three years with Carnegie Corporation as a senior program officer in the Education Division.
She has extensive experience in education reform, youth development and urban affairs work.
She served as Vice President of the Fund for the City of New York where she developed the Beacons Schools initiative with New York City and as Vice President for Schools and Community Services at the Academy for Educational Development where she led several national demonstration projects with more than 20 urban districts.
She spent a decade as the co-founder of the Public Policy Program, a nationally recognized innovative college program for non-traditional students and assistant professor and Director of the Urban Studies Program at Saint Peter's College in Jersey City.
Ms. Cahill has a B.A.
in Urban Affairs from Saint Peter's College, a Masters of Arts in Urban Affairs from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and she pursued doctoral studies in social policy and planning at Columbia University where she was a Revson Fellow.