Oral history interview with Avery B. Russell, 1998.

Biographical Note

Foundation Officer

Scope and Contents

Born in North Carolina; family: Scottish and English ancestry, daughter of journalism professor and researcher; education: early schooling in Putney, Vermont, University of North Carolina, B.A., 1961; travel to New York, Morocco, England, France, Yugoslavia; Asia Society: non-profit research for Southeast Asia Development Advisory Group, 1966-1970; Carnegie Corporation, 1970-present: executive assistant, public information officer, project director, Second Carnegie Inquiry into Poverty and Development in South Africa, 1984-1993, publication of Quarterly, writing task force reports, annual reports, grantmaking to pre-published authors; Carnegie environment: role of women, corporation atmosphere, politics, shifts in administration and focus on grantmaking, conflicts among staff and administration; history of Carnegie involvement in South Africa; publication of Politics of Knowledge; involvement in Human Resources in Developing Countries program; the Myrdal study of segregation in the American South; research on women's and children's health and education; similarities and differences among foundations; reminiscences of colleagues.

Subjects

• Carnegie Corporation of New York.
• Carnegie Inquiry into Poverty and Development in Southern Africa.
• Economic assistance, American.
• Endowments--Officials and employees--Interviews.
• Endowments--United States.
• Hearing, Brenda interviewer.
• Interviews.
• Oral histories.
• Russell, Avery B.--Interviews.

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