Amy Sullivan Berkeley

As Vice President of Institutional Advancement, Amy Sullivan Berkeley is responsible for fundraising for both the University and the Law School, including major gifts, corporate and foundation relations, annual giving, and alumni/parent relations. Her department also directs the strategies for the Center for Career and Professional Development, encouraging RWU’s Alumni and Parent communities to mentor current RWU students. She has more than 25 years of experience in program development and advancement at non-profit organizations in educational institutions, higher education and charitable organizations.

Before RWU, Ms. Berkeley was Senior Director of Leadership & Planned Giving at the Boston Museum of Science. As part of the Senior Management team, she led the organization’s largest annual fundraising yield of $71 million. At the Museum, she also launched MOS Women and Girls in STEM, empowering women and girls in STEM learning from middle school to college students, and successfully completing the fundraising campaign to reimagine the Blue Wing, the Museum’s largest exhibit hall.

Before the Museum of Science, Ms. Berkeley spent nine years as Executive Director of Advancement at Brookwood School, and worked in various roles at Emerson College and Boston College. At Emerson, she served as Chief Advancement Officer & Director of Major Gifts, leading fundraising initiatives that contributed to an increase of $80 million to Emerson’s endowment, and as Director of Parents Fund, Associate Director of Graduate Admissions and Manager of Registrar’s Services. Concurrent to these roles, Ms. Berkeley has served as trustee, volunteer and consultant to various non-profits ranging from Boston Children’s Theatre, Desai Foundation in India and the U.S. and Akilah College for Women in Rwanda.

Ms. Berkeley holds a Master of Education from Harvard University and Bachelor of Arts in Literature from Boston College.