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Dar Vanderbeck is the Vice President of the Aspen Global Leadership Network (AGLN).
Prior to joining the Aspen Institute, Dar served as the first Chief Innovation Officer at CARE USA where she was responsible for driving the transformation and leading the creation of the 75-year-old organization’s global innovation strategy. Previously, she was Managing Director for Teach for America’s Innovation and Values-Based Leadership team, tasked with building TFA alumni cohorts across the country to help drive values-based innovation. Dar is also a founder/co-founder of several organizations: Canopy Collective, an organization of truth, reconciliation and redress practitioners; Imperative a b2b tech platform to increase a sense of purpose in the work place; and the Roosevelt Institute, the nations student-run first progressive think tank. Dar was also a political appointeee in the first term of Obama Administration where she served for USAID/OTI in Afghanistan as a frontline civilian, among other assignments. Dar began her career in Kenya as a paralegal with the grassroots organization MUHURI (Muslims for Human Rights). She has served on the Boards of MicroVest Holdings, CARE Social Ventures, Rhize and Chrysalis Ltd – Sri Lanka, and as an advisor for Groundwater Institute, among others. She is also a death doula.
Dar earned her B.A from Bates College in a self-designed interdisciplinary major called Political Economies in Transition. She is currently finishing a Masters of Divinity in Social Transformation from the Pacific School of Religion (PSR) in Berkeley, CA and her interreligious chaplaincy degree. Dar is based in Los Angeles with her husband Andy (a pediatrician at Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles) and their two sons, Gael and Aza.
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