Mary-Mack Callahan

Mary-Mack Callahan, chief operating officer, oversees all CommunicationWorks operations and manages projects focused on higher education, research, philanthropy, and nonprofit management. Mary is the former managing director of the Consortium for the Advancement of Private Higher Education, where she was an adviser to dozens of foundations and hundreds of private colleges for more than a decade. She has managed foundation grants in community development; faculty roles and rewards; and efforts to encourage colleges to play a stronger role in developing the skills of youth in poor, urban, and rural communities. She has been a participant in Grantmakers for Education and other philanthropic groups. Mary has an undergraduate degree in anthropology from Swarthmore College.