Carrie Avery

Carrie Avery is the former president of the Los-Angeles-based Durfee Foundation, which focuses on leadership by providing fellowships, grants to new organizations, and sabbaticals to long-time nonprofit leaders.

Prior to working for the Durfee Foundation, Carrie practiced law, first with the National Women’s Law Center in Washington, D.C., and later with a private firm in San Francisco.

Carrie received her BA from Stanford University, her JD from the University of California at Berkeley, and was a Georgetown University women’s law and public policy fellow. She serves on the boards and executive committees of Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, where she is governance chair, and the Berkeley Repertory Theater, where she is vice chair. She has also served as board chair of the National Center for Family Philanthropy and Northern California Grantmakers, where she founded and for several years chaired the Family Philanthropy Exchange. She has also served as co-chair at St. Paul’s Episcopal School in Oakland, California and the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area.