Finalist: Deidre Lind

President & CEO
Mayor’s Fund for Los Angeles

Deidre Lind is an award-winning philanthropic leader with effective, impact-driven results. She served as the founding president of the Mayor’s Fund for Los Angeles, which was created to build a diverse array of public/private partnerships focused on innovation and impact. Lind has built her career over two decades leading corporate responsibility and philanthropy programs, including serving for a decade as Mattel’s chief global social impact strategist, where she launched their two percent pre tax profit annual commitment, and delivered the Company’s first global sustainability assessment.