The LEGO Foundation in Billund, Denmark, has announced the appointment of ANNE-BIRGITTE ALBRECTSEN as its new CEO, effective September. Currently CEO of Plan International and member of the board of the LEGO Foundation since 2020, ABRECTSEN will succeed JOHN GOOWIN, who has served as CEO of the foundation since 2017.

TERESA MILLER has been named president and CEO of the Kansas Health Foundation, a statewide philanthropy based in Wichita, effective on or before June 1. A native of Oregon, Miller has served since 2017 as secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services, the state’s largest agency, with approximately sixteen thousand staff and a total budget of more than $45 billion. Before becoming secretary of human services, Miller served as Pennsylvania insurance commissioner, held leadership roles in the federal government’s Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and was administrator of the insurance division in the State of Oregon’s Department of Consumer and Business Services. She will succeed the late REGINALD L. ROBINSON, who passed away in September.

The Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, has announced that foundation trustee MICAH GILMER has agreed to take a leave of absence from the board to serve as interim CEO as the board engages in a national search for a new CEO. Gilmer is a co-founder of and senior partner at Frontline Solutions, a Black-owned consulting firm where Gilmer leads the consulting team, supports staff in their work with clients, and works closely with senior leaders at partner organizations as a coach and thought partner. 

The Indianapolis-based Lilly Endowment has announced the election of CLARENCE CRAIN to its board of directors. Crain retired from the endowment at the end of August after serving for fourteen years as a program director in its education division. Prior to his tenure at the endowment, he worked for thirty years at General Motors.

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in Stanford, California, has announced the re-election of BOB HUGHES to its board of trustees. Hughes, who served on Carnegie’s board from 2013 to 2017, currently serves as director of the K–12 Education in the United States program for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and previously served as president of New Visions for Public Schools — a New York City school network of seventy district schools serving approximately forty-five thousand students.

The Museum of Modern Art in New York City has announced the appointment of LEAH DICKERMAN as its first-ever director of research programs. In that position, Dickerman will create an integrated strategy to reimagine MoMA’s Studies in Modern Art publication series as a platform for new thinking and research about modern and contemporary art and will continue to oversee the Mellon-Marron Research Consortium (MRC) partnership between MoMA and five regional graduate art history programs — Columbia University; The Graduate Center, City University of New York; the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University; Princeton University; and Yale University, a program she initiated and has directed since 2013.

The David and Lucile Packard Foundation has announced that JANE LUBCHENCO will be stepping down as a trustee of the foundation to join the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy as deputy director for climate and the environment. A marine ecologist and environmental scientist by training, with expertise in oceans, climate change, and interactions between the environment and human well-being, Lubchenco has served on the foundation’s board since 2013 and previously served on the board from 2001-04.  

The D.C.-based Meyer Foundation has announced that Virginia Partnerships and Strategy Director SONIA QUINONEZ will be stepping down from her position in early April to join the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a progressive think tank, as director of strategic grantmaking for the State Fiscal Policy team.