Joan Dunlop, Lakeville, CT

Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, Board Member

Ms. Dunlop is past President and now a member of the Board of Directors of the International Women’s Health Coalition. She is also a Board member of CARE in Atlanta and on the U.S. board for the Open Society Institute. She has made the United States her home since 1960 and was born and educated in England. Her work has taken her into New York City government under Mayor John Lindsay, non-profit organizations and the foundation world, including the Fund for the City of New York, The Ford Foundation and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. In the 1970’s, Ms. Dunlop was an Associate to John D. Rockefeller 3rd, and in the early 1980’s, she was Executive Assistant to Dr. Vartan Gregorian, President of the New York Public Library. She has served on the Commonwealth Commission on Women’s Health as well as the Program Advisory Committee and the Women’s Health Initiative at the National Institute of Health. In 1995, Ms. Dunlop was also awarded an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters by Hamilton College. She lives in Lakeville, and has been a board member of Berkshire Taconic since 2000.