The LEE Foundation’s mission is to foster and facilitate increased civic leadership. The Foundation supports LEE’s charitable and educational activities.
Emma Bloomberg is founder and CEO of Murmuration, a non-profit tech company that works with local organizations to amplify the power of civic engagement by providing the data, tools, and research necessary to build healthier and more equitable communities.
Bloomberg has been working with communities and leaders for over 20 years to tackle some of our country’s most pressing challenges and believes deeply in community driven change. From working in the New York City mayor’s office to fighting poverty in New York, Bloomberg has worked with communities across the country to marshall the support needed for America to live up to its founding ideals. She founded Murmuration with the fundamental belief that the collective power of community-driven civic engagement can affect sustainable systems change.
Bloomberg is a board member of Bloomberg Philanthropies, KIPP Foundation, National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, UndauntedK12, and LEE. She also runs, with her sister, the Emma and Georgina Bloomberg Foundation, a private charitable foundation supporting education and animal rights groups. She has been an advisor to the Mayoral Leadership in Education Network at Harvard Kennedy School and chair of the Stand for Children Leadership Center.
Bloomberg holds an A.B. from Princeton University, an MPA from The Harvard Kennedy School, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Steve Mandel is the founder of Lone Pine Capital, a public equity asset management firm that he started in 1997. Prior to founding Lone Pine, Mr. Mandel was managing director and consumer analyst at Tiger Management Corporation (1990-1997), mass-market retailing analyst at Goldman, Sachs (1984-1990) and consultant at Mars and Company (1982-1984). Mr. Mandel graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy (1974), Dartmouth College (1978) and Harvard Business School (1982). He served as board chair of Teach for America and Dartmouth College and is a former trustee of Phillips Exeter Academy and The Children’s School in Stamford, CT. He is a founder and board member of the Lone Pine Foundation, whose mission is to help children and families in the communities where Lone Pine has offices. He is also a director of the ZOOM Foundation, a family foundation focused primarily on education and the environment. Mr. Mandel and his wife Sue live in Greenwich, Connecticut and have three adult children.
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