Rebecca Chamberlain-Creangă

About

Rebecca Chamberlain-Creangă is a communications officer working with the Mott Foundation’s Civil Society program.

As an anthropologist and communicator, she has decades of experience working frontline with civil society organizations inside conflict-affected countries and transitioning states.

Before joining philanthropy, Chamberlain-Creangă worked in the World Bank’s Europe and Central Asia Social Development Unit, which promotes low-income people’s participation in the development process. She led knowledge-management activities in the department, authored research reports and wrote policy briefs.

As a native Michigander, Chamberlain-Creangă returned home to Michigan in 2014 to join the Kresge Foundation. She worked as a communications officer for internal and strategic initiatives, providing communications counsel to Kresge’s learning and evaluation practice and Leadership and Infrastructure Funding Team. She also served as a special assistant to Kresge’s president and CEO, partnering with Kresge program teams and leadership to develop systems, structures and processes for the foundation to evaluate and learn from the activities it funds.

Chamberlain-Creangă holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from the London School of Economics. As a Marshall Scholar, she earned a Master of Arts from University College London and a Master of Science from the London School of Economics. Chamberlain-Creangă received a Bachelor of Arts in international relations from Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts. She speaks Romanian and has learned Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, French and Russian in her global work.

In her spare time, Chamberlain-Creangă has taught at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan, and served on the advisory board of LearnPhilanthropy at the Johnson Center for Philanthropy at Grand Valley State University.