BOSTON (AP) - The Boston Foundation has announced that the president of Emerson College will takeover as president and chief executive officer in June.
The philanthropic foundation began the search earlier this year after CEO Paul Grogan announced he would step down after 20 years, The Boston Globe reported Tuesday.
Lee Pelton said in an interview that he is grateful and humbled to have been selected to lead the foundation.
Pelton says he will use his experience in civic leadership to solve the issues most pertinent to Boston and the nation.
“I would like to see a more equitable and just city on a hill,” he said. “I would like to see a Boston that is less divided economically, and I’d like to see a Boston where we have been able to lift up communities in a profound way - a Boston in which all people of conscience and good will have come together to engage in important work.”
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