Breakthrough Greater Boston
Trudi Veldman serves as the Executive Director of Biologics Discovery and Head of Neglected Diseases R&D at AbbVie, a role held since May 2003, with prior positions including Executive Director of Biologics and Senior Director of the Biologics Generation Group. Trudi Veldman is also a Board Member at Breakthrough Greater Boston since June 2014 and has a history of board membership at The Greater Boston Food Bank from 1992 to September 2020. Previous experience includes serving as Director of the Antibody Technology Group at Genetics Institute/Wyeth from 1982 to 2003. Trudi Veldman earned a Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam between 1976 and 1982.
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Breakthrough Greater Boston
This year marks Breakthrough Greater Boston's 30th Anniversary! Founded in 1992 by MacArthur Genius Awardee Dr. Angela Duckworth, Breakthrough Greater Boston (BTGB) transforms urban education for students and teachers through its unique Students Teaching Students model. Through six years of intensive, tuition-free out-of-school-time programming for traditionally underserved middle and high school students in Cambridge, Boston and Somerville. BTGB changes students’ academic trajectories and supports them along the path to college. At the same time, BTGB develops the next generation of urban educators by recruiting and training cohorts of diverse, high-achieving college students to serve as Teaching Fellows and near-peer role models to BTGB students. Since 1992, BTGB has supported the success of over 2,500 students and Teaching Fellows. 94% of our seniors have matriculated to college and 82% have persisted through their undergraduate years. On average, more than 75% of our graduating Teaching Fellows have continued in the field of education.