Linda L. Snyder

Linda Snyder is a retired executive with experience in managing organizations in higher education and the public sector involved in building and campus planning, financing, design, construction, facility management and operations. Ms. Snyder is currently consulting for the Commonwealth on matters related to space use and real estate in the wake of COVID-19.

From 2012 to 2017 Linda served as Tufts University Vice President for Operations, responsible for the Tufts campuses in Boston, Medford/Somerville and Grafton, Massachusetts. Linda was Dartmouth College Vice President of Campus Planning and Facilities from 2009 to 2012. From 2005 to 2009 Ms. Snyder was the Associate Executive Dean of Physical Resources and Planning for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) of Harvard University.

From 1997 to 2005 Ms. Snyder was the Executive Director of the Massachusetts State College Building Authority, where she pioneered an innovative harmony-based construction delivery process for public agencies, now written into Massachusetts law. From 1993 to 1997, she managed the construction of the Chelsea, Massachusetts school system. Ms. Snyder holds a 1981 Bachelor of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning from Utah State University and is a 1996-97 Harvard University Graduate School of Design Loeb Fellow. Ms. Snyder lives in the South End of Boston with her husband Steven Kadish.