Valerie Rockefeller chairs the Board of Directors of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, a nonprofit philanthropy services organization that accelerates philanthropy in pursuit of a just world. Her professional background is as a middle school special education teacher for adolescents with learning differences and emotional disabilities. Valerie has a M.Ed. in Special Education from the Bank Street College of Education and a MAT in Social Studies from Teachers College, Columbia University. She attended Stanford University and worked at the U.S. Department of Education.
Valerie serves on the boards of Achievement First, Columbia University’s Teachers College, the Generation Foundation, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Rockefeller Family Fund, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Europe, and The Trust for Mutual Understanding.
Valerie is a fifth-generation member of the Rockefeller family.