Leah Hamilton

Program Director, Urban Education

Leah Hamilton joined Carnegie Corporation of New York after five years working on education reform at the New York City Department of Education. As Executive Director of The Office of Multiple Pathways to Graduation (OMPG), launched in September 2005, Ms. Hamilton worked to drive system innovation and reform by targeting graduation rate improvement for New York City's most at-risk youth. She oversaw the Multiple Pathways to Graduation strategy’s aggressive growth from start-up through full implementation of a rigorous model of data-driven strategic planning, partnership capacity building and model portfolio development for a system of recuperative education representing more than $50 million dollars in targeted investments. She has also served in the Department of Education as the Director of Community-Based Organization Networks and Interim Director of Student Support Services. Ms. Hamilton offers ten years of experience leading diverse teams in large-scale, long-term strategic planning and implementation in both the private and public sectors. She has a B.A. in philosophy from Williams College and an M.B.A. and M.S.W. from Columbia University.