CEOThe Luminos Fund
Caitlin Baron is the CEO of the Luminos Fund, an education nonprofit dedicated to giving the world’s most vulnerable, out-of-school children a second chance to learn. Luminos has set 172,957 children across Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East on a path to lifelong learning. Caitlin believes in the power of creative pedagogies and activity-based education to transform children’s lives, even in the poorest corners of the world. She spent the previous decade as a senior leader within the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, helping to grow the organization to steward over $1 billion in charitable giving. She founded and led the foundation’s office in South Africa and built MSDF’s impact investing portfolio. Caitlin graduated from UCLA in Political Science and is pursuing an executive master’s with the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.