M. Christine DeVita is President of The Wallace Foundation, a private charitable foundation created by Lila and DeWitt Wallace, the founders of Reader's Digest, as a legacy of their own philanthropic lives.
DeVita joined the foundation in November 1987. Since then, she has led the foundation as it has shifted away from project-focused grantmaking and toward more integrated strategies that combine program, evaluation and communications expertise to deliver social benefits beyond the recipients of the foundation's direct grants.
DeVita earned her B.A. magna cum laude from Queens College of the City University of New York and her J.D. cum laude from Fordham University School of Law.
In managing this work/family balance, the other thing I think you need to really recognize is that guilt sits forever on this shoulder. And it is always there. And there were times when my children were little that I was the only mom that worked. And the conversation was, why are you the only mom...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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