The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Darren Walker

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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Darren Walker

8/26/2014

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2014.170

Nonprofit executive and foundation president Darren Walker (1959 - ) was named tenth president of the Ford Foundation in 2013. He previously served as COO of the Abyssinian Development Corporation in Harlem, and as vice president for the Rockefeller Foundation’s program initiatives. Walker was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 8/26/2014, in New York, New York. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 1; Total Tapes: 5; Total Run Time: 02h 16m 54s

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Non-profit executive and foundation president Darren Walker was born in Lafayette, Louisiana in 1959, and raised in Ames and Goose Creek, Texas. He graduated from The University of Texas at Austin in 1982, and received his J.D. degree from the University of Texas School of Law in 1986.Walker was hired at the international law firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton in 1986. In 1988, he joined the Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS), where he spent seven years in the capital markets division. ...