Matthew Klein
Executive Director, Blue Ridge Foundatio New York
 

Matthew Klein is the Executive Director and first staff person of Blue Ridge Foundation New York. Blue Ridge supports start-up nonprofits, helping to transform innovative ideas into effective and sustainable institutions of social change. Matt's experience prior to Blue Ridge includes work in nonprofit management and civil rights law. He helped co-found Leadership, Education, and Athletics in Partnership (LEAP), a Connecticut-based youth development agency, performed legal work with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., and the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, and served as a law clerk in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York for the Honorable Robert L. Carter, one of the principal litigating attorneys in the landmark Brown v. Board of Education lawsuit.

Matt sits on the Steering Committee of the New York City Youth Funders Network. He also serves as a board member of several nonprofit agencies, including as a founding Board member iMentor and the founding Board Chair of Groundwork, Inc. Matt has been a fellow of the Echoing Green Foundation and the Next Generation Leadership program of the Rockefeller Foundation, and he is a member of the bar in New York and Massachusetts. Matt attended the Boston Public Schools, Yale College and Yale Law School.

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