Sarita Gupta ’96

Sarita Gupta ’96 is vice president of U.S. programs at the Ford Foundation, overseeing the foundation’s domestic work including Civic Engagement and Government, Creativity and Free Expression, Future of Work(ers), Technology and Society, Disability Rights, and Gender, Racial, and Ethnic Justice. She develops vision and strategy to address the political, economic and cultural drivers of inequality. Gupta joined the foundation in 2019 as director of the Future of Work(ers) program, bringing over two decades of experience in policy advocacy, organizing, and building partnerships having served as the Executive Director of Jobs With Justice and Co-Director of Caring Across Generations. She is the co-author of The Future We Need: Organizing for a Better Democracy in the Twenty-First Century.

She currently sits on the boards of the Institute for Policy Studies, United States Student Association Foundation, Caring Across Generations, National Committee on Responsive Philanthropy, Mount Holyoke Alum Association, and Ownership Works. A Hunt Alternatives Fund Prime Movers Fellow and a graduate of the Rockwood Leadership Training Program, Gupta has received a number of awards and accolades.

Class year: 1996
Joined board: 2023