Michelle Kydd Lee is the executive director and founder of the CAA Foundation, the charitable arm of the talent and literary agency Creative Artists Agency, with offices in Los Angeles, New York, Nashville, St. Louis, London and Beijing. Since 1995, the CAA Foundation has used the natural resources of the entertainment community to effect positive social change. In her role, Kydd Lee serves as a consultant to clients, executives and corporations on their philanthropic and pro-social initiatives. She is also the director of culture at CAA, supervising several other divisions of the agency. Kydd Lee has been involved with many charitable organizations and currently sits on the boards of Points of Light and Los Angeles Communities in Schools and the advisory boards of the Ad Council, FEED and IDEO. She is a member of the 2009 class of Henry Crown Fellows at the Aspen Institute and is a senior fellow at the USC Marshall School of Business' Society and Business Lab.

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A Matter of Degrees: How Higher Education Drives Economic Development

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