Luke Haynes has been Executive Director of the David Rockefeller Fund in New York since 2015. He oversees all operations and grantmaking programs for criminal justice reform, climate change solutions, and art for social impact. Luke served on the Protect Our Winters Board of Directors, offering strategic and governance advice and advocating that POW explore the creation of a 501(c)(4) with a complementary mission. He resigned from the board to recommend one of the POW Action Fund’s first grants and remains an informal POWAF advisor.
Prior to joining the DR Fund, Luke was vice president of the Mertz Gilmore Foundation; New York Director of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; and Fellow of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University.
Luke also serves as a trustee of Lulu’s Fund, providing need-based financial aid to preschool families in Montclair, NJ; director of the Clara Lionel Foundation and advisor to the Center for Climate and Security in Washington D.C.