Lilly Weinberg joined Knight Foundation in August 2012. In her role, she works nationally to connect local efforts across Knight’s 26 communities and scale what works.

Weinberg graduated from the Harvard Kennedy School and the MIT Sloan School of Management, where she concurrently earned master’s degrees in public administration and business administration. While attending graduate school, she worked with the Boston Redevelopment Authority and the New York City Economic Development Corp., in both cases creating strategies to promote economic development, entrepreneurship and business growth. She also worked with CVS Caremark on successfully developing new marketing and digital strategies.

Weinberg earned a bachelor’s degree in economics and environmental studies from Emory University, which allowed her to study and research sustainable development in Botswana, Namibia, Peru, and Turks and Caicos.

Weinberg’s civic leadership includes Leadership Miami, Leadership Florida Connect and Miami’s Young American Leadership Program at Harvard Business School. A former New Leaders Council fellow, she also served as executive director and advisory committee member of its Miami chapter. She served on the board of directors of the International Downtown Association for six years and previously served on the board of Friends of the Underline, a ten-mile linear park beneath Miami’s Metrorail. She currently serves as a volunteer committee member of the Northern Valley Greenway, a proposed eight-mile rail-to-trail project connecting six boroughs in northern New Jersey.

She lives in the New York City area with her husband, their two boys and their adorable Goldendoodle, Bamba.