Carmen James Lane
cjlane@meyerfdn.org
Program Officer
Ms. Lane serves as a program officer for the Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation, specializing in grantmaking that supports children, youth, and families. Her passion is youth development and education, in particular meeting the needs and fulfilling the potential of low-income youth. Ms. Lane is the co-chair of Washington Grantmakers' Education Working Group, whose two main priorities are professional development and education organizing and advocacy. She also co-chairs the Youth Transition Funders Group (YTFG), a national network of grantmakers whose mission is to help all youth make a successful transition to adulthood by age 25. She is a member of YTFG's working group on struggling students and out-of-school youth.
Ms. Lane joined the Meyer Foundation in 1998 to lead the Initiative to Strengthen Neighborhood Inter-Group Assets, which was created in partnership with the Ford Foundation to encourage recent immigrants to the Washington, DC area and established residents to work together on issues of common concern. Previously, Ms. Lane served as deputy director of the Humanities Council of Washington, DC, where she developed the award-winning City Lights program, a humanities-based literacy program for children and families living in public housing communities. She is a graduate of American University, and lives in Columbia, Maryland with her husband and their three children.