Dar Vanderbeck

Dar Vanderbeck is the Vice President of the Aspen Global Leadership Network (AGLN). Prior to joining the Aspen Institute, Dar served as the first Chief Innovation Officer for the humanitarian aid organization CARE USA; Managing Director for Teach for America’s Innovation and Values-Based Leadership team; a death doula; and an appointee with the Obama Administration at USAID. Dar is also a founder/co-founder of several organizations, most recently Canopy Collective, a now-sunset organization with a mission to build a transnational coalition of people advancing truth-telling and reparative justice in their countries. Dar began her career in Kenya working with the grassroots organization MUHURI (Muslims for Human Rights) and co-founding the Roosevelt Campus Network. Dar has served on the Boards of MicroVest Holdings, CARE Social Ventures, Rhize and Chrysalis Ltd – Sri Lanka, and as an advisor for Groundwater Institute, among others. Dar earned her B.A from Bates College in a self-designed interdisciplinary major called Political Economies in Transition and pursued a Masters of Divinity in Social Transformation from the Pacific School of Religion (PSR) in Berkeley, CA along with her interreligious chaplaincy degree. Dar is based in Los Angeles with her husband Andy, a pediatrician at Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, and their two sons.