Walker, Darren, 1959-
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Birth Date
- 1959-08-28
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- Affiliation Start: 2010
- Organization: Ford Foundation
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- African American authors
Birth Place
- Lafayette (La.)
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- English
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- found: From generosity to justice, 2023:(Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation)
- found: Darren Walker oral history interview : The HistoryMakers(Non-profit executive and foundation president Darren Walker; born August 28, 1959, Lafayette, Louisiana; graduated from The University of Texas at Austin in 1982, received his J.D. degree from the University of Texas School of Law in 1986; immediately hired at the international law firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton; in 1988, he joined the Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS), where he spent seven years in the capital markets division; then worked as chief operating officer for the Abyssinian Development Corporation; in 2002, hired by the Rockefeller Foundation as director of its domestic urban program, and, in 2006, was promoted to vice president for foundation initiatives; in 2010, appointed the Ford Foundation's vice president for Education, Creativity and Free Expression; in 2013, named tenth president of the Ford Foundation)
- found: New York times, 14 July 2019:in article entitled "Giving away others' millions" (As president of the Ford Foundation, Darren Walker gives away $650 million a year of other peoples's money; when he got his job in 2013, he set his sights on tackling inequality; grew up in Louisiana and East Texas with a single mother; His influence on the way that arts and culture operate in New York is going to have a major long-term effect; that influence is around diversity, equity and inclusion, and around the idea that art and social justice can be intertwined)
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- 2016-06-20: new
- 2023-12-15: revised
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