Kimberlyn Rachael Leary

Board of Governors Member since 2022

Dr. Kimberlyn Leary has served as the Executive Vice President at the Urban Institute, an Advisor and Senior Fellow at New America, and recently joined the faculty of the Harvard Kennedy School as an Emma Bloomberg Lecturer in Policy and Management. She has also been a consulting advisor to the Gates Foundation.

Dr. Leary also holds academic appointments as an associate professor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and has held two roles in federal service: in the Obama White House as an advisor to the Council on Women and Girls, as a senior advisor to the Biden White House Domestic Policy Council, and as a fellow in the Office of Management and Budget.

Dr. Leary holds an AB in Psychology from Amherst College, a PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Michigan, and a Master of Public Administration from Harvard University. She also trained as a psychoanalyst at the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute.

She had held fellowships from the Ford Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. In April of 2024, she was a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center resident, where she developed a set of writing projects based on leading change across the federal ecosystem.