Dr. Carmen Rojas is the president & CEO of Marguerite Casey Foundation. Under her leadership, the foundation launched the prestigious Freedom Scholar award, committed to ensuring that a majority of MCF’s endowment is overseen by diverse managers, and since starting in 2020 granted more than $130M in funding to dozens of organizations doing the hard work of shifting power to those people who have long been excluded from having it. Prior to MCF, Dr. Rojas was the co-founder and CEO of The Workers Lab, an innovation lab that partners with workers to develop new ideas that help them succeed and flourish. For more than 20 years, she has worked with foundations, financial institutions, and nonprofits to improve the lives of working people across the country.
Dr. Rojas sits on the boards of Nonprofit Quarterly, Blue Ridge Labs and Children’s Defense Fund, as well as the San Francisco Federal Reserve's Community Advisory Council and Confluence's Racial Equity Initiative Advisory Committee.
She holds a PhD in city and regional planning from UC Berkeley and was a Fulbright Scholar in 2007.
