Charlotte Kahn,

Charlotte Kahn co-founded and is the Director of the Boston Indicators Project at the Boston Foundation, Greater Boston’s community foundation. A partnership with the City of Boston and the Metropolitan Area Planning Council, the Boston Indicators Project tracks change across a comprehensive framework of ten sectors through an award-winning website. The Project also publishes a biennial summary of global, national, and regional trends affecting the Boston and its metropolitan region based on sector convenings and research. The Project also issues a “report card” tracking progress on a shared civic agenda. Prior to her work on indicators at the Boston Foundation, Ms. Kahn directed the Boston Persistent Poverty Project, part of a six-city Rockefeller Foundation initiative. Earlier, she served as the Executive Director of an NGO dedicated to improving the quality of urban life, particularly in low-income neighborhoods, through open space planning and design and youth development and job training programs. Ms. Kahn attended Cornell University, holds a Masters degree from Antioch University, and was awarded a Loeb Fellowship in Advanced Environmental Studies from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She is a founding member of the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership at the Urban Institute in Washington, DC, and of the Community Indicators Consortium, a global  community of practice for people and organizations interested in advancing the art and science of community indicators.