Catherine Ormerod, MSS, MSLP

Director, Vision 2020

Catherine.Ormerod@drexelmed.edu

Vision 2020 project director Catherine Ormerod has over 25 years of experience in the academic, nonprofit and public policy arenas. She is the founding director of the Nonprofit Executive Leadership Institute at Bryn Mawr College; served in senior leadership positions at Women's Way and Living Beyond Breast Cancer; ran her own nonprofit consulting firm; and lectured on social policy at the University of Pennsylvania.

Catherine started out as a communications professional - first as a reporter and later as press secretary for Lynn Yeakel's 1992 senatorial campaign.

Catherine is an advisory-board member of Laurel House, a domestic violence agency in Pennsylvania; a member of the grant-making committee of Bread & Roses Community Fund, a donor-activist partnership focusing on social change in the Philadelphia area; and a founder of the Montgomery County Women's Conference, a Pennsylvania-based nonpartisan organization.

Catherine holds an M.S. in both social services and law and social policy from Bryn Mawr College Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research.