Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with Emmett D. Carson
Emmett D. Carson
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| Other authors / contributors: | Carson, Emmett Devon, interviewee.
Richardson, Julieanna L., interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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| Sound characteristics: | digital
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| Digital file characteristics: | video file
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| Notes: | Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Julieanna L. Richardson, interviewer.
Recorded Mountain View, California 2015 December 16.
Vendor-supplied metadata.
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| Summary: | Nonprofit chief executive Emmett D. Carson was born on October 6, 1959, in Chicago, Illinois. He earned his B.A. degree in economics from Morehouse College in 1980; his M.P.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University in 1983 and 1986, respectively. In 1986, Carson joined the Center for Political & Economic Studies as project director. He designed and directed the first national comparative study of black and white charitable giving and volunteerism in America. In 1984, he was named president and CEO of the Minneapolis Foundation. He was an adjunct professor of Afro-American Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park from 1987 until 1989, when he became a program officer at the Ford Foundation in New York City. In 1993, Carson was founding CEO and president of the two billion dollar Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
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