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Lisette Nieves is an American academic, non-profit leader, and public official. She is the president of the Fund for the City of New York and a Distinguished Clinical Instructor with
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. In July 2022, she became a
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-confirmed member of the board of directors of
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.


Early life and education

Nieves was born and raised in
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, New York, and graduated from
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. She received her B.A. from
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in 1992, and while an undergraduate she spent time studying at the London School of Economics as a
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. As a
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she earned a B.A./M.A. from the
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in 1994, and then returned to the United States to earn a master's degree in public administration from
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. She went on to earn a master's degree in public affairs and domestic politics from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University,The New York Carib News
and an executive doctorate (Ed.D.) in Higher Education Management at the
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.


Career

While in college, Nieves worked with Hispanic adults in Brooklyn on adult literacy, and volunteered to help address issues of homelessness and poverty. Following her time at the University of Oxford, Nieves moved to Washington, D.C. where she worked for the Corporation for National and Communication Services, a federal agency in Washington, D.C. She then worked for The After School Corporation, and from 2002 until 2004, she was the chief of staff in New York City's Department of Youth and Community Development office. She was the founding executive director of Year Up, a program that centered on workplace development. In 2011, while she was a social entrepreneur-in-residence at the Blue Ridge Foundation,
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appointed her to the President's Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanics, where she served as a commissioner. On July 30, 2021, Nieves was nominated as a member of the board of directors of
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, a position that was confirmed by the
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in July 2022. In 2020 Nieves was named president of the Fund for the City of New York. As of 2022 she is also a Distinguished Clinical Instructor with
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.


Selected works

* Anderson, N., & Nieves, L. (2020). Working to learn: Disrupting the divide between college and career pathways for young people. Pal-grave MacMillan. book/10.1007%2F978-3-030-35350-6 *


Awards and honors

In 1991 Nieves was named a
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, thereby becoming the first person from Brooklyn College to receive this honor, the second person from the City University of New York and the first Puerto Rican woman. In March 1992, she was one of several women honored by the New York City chapter of the National Conference of Puerto Rican Women for their "contributions in helping Puerto Rican females make history." In 2008, the
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named her one of their '2008 Heroes', which included a $50,000 grant for her work with Year Up, a program supporting the education and employment of urban youth.


See also

* List of Puerto Ricans


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Nieves, Lisette 1970 births American people of Puerto Rican descent 21st-century American businesspeople Living people Brooklyn College alumni Alumni of the University of Oxford University of Pennsylvania alumni Princeton University alumni American Rhodes Scholars 21st-century American businesswomen American nonprofit chief executives Members of the Board of Directors of the Corporation for National and Community Service