In her role at the Durfee Foundation, Claire has shaped the foundation’s programs in leadership development, community building and civic problem solving in LA, principally through its Stanton Fellowships, Sabbatical Award, Springboard Fund and Ignite Student Science Fellowships. Claire serves/has served as a board member of the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts, Chair of Southern California Grantmakers, Chair of Grantmakers in the Arts, President of the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, Vice Chair of the California Council for the Humanities, and is a Senior Fellow of the Luskin School of Public Policy at UCLA. She is an adjunct instructor at USC’s Price School of Public Policy, where she was named Outstanding Faculty in 2016. Prior to joining Durfee, Claire was the associate director of the Los Angeles Festival; the publisher of High Performance Magazine; and the director of education at The Friends of Photography/The Ansel Adams Center. Her book, Activists Speak Out, was published by St. Martins Press in 2001.