Diane Hammer Simmons Institute for Leadership and Change
Diane Hammer is director of the Simmons Institute for Leadership and Change. She has over 20 years of direct administrative experience in higher education. Personally as well as professionally, she exhibits ongoing commitment to social justice, using her role at Simmons College to forge collaborative community partnerships to address issues of social and economic justice for women and girls. She is the former president of the board of directors of Primary Source, a nonprofit center for multicultural and global education. Diane also oversaw and coordinated the milestone Massachusetts Conference on Women: Bringing Beijing Home. She is a current member of the board of the Boston Women’s Fund and is an active member of the Girls Get Connected Collaborative. She is new to the Girls’ Coalition Leadership Council as of April 2004. She holds an M.S. in Communications Management from Simmons College and a B.A. in History from the State University of New York at Binghamton.
Simmons Institute for Leadership and Change
The Simmons Institute was founded in 1991, with the goal of helping women and girls act individually and collectively to transform their personal, work, and community lives by creating partnerships among academic, business, and community organizations. Such alliances create innovative strategies, promote activism, and work toward social justice. John Simmons’ intention in founding Simmons College was to improve women’s lives through access to education. That goal has endured for more than a century. The Simmons Institute for Leadership and Change is dedicated to the success of women as community leaders, to social change, and to gender equity.
