Our New SVP for Development and Alumni Relations
Dear faculty and staff colleagues,
I am writing with the exciting news that Heather Lee Krajewski has been named senior vice president for development and alumni relations.
Heather comes to us from Hampden-Sydney College in Farmville, Virginia, where she has served as vice president for college advancement since 2018. Her appointment follows a comprehensive national search that yielded an impressive pool of candidates for this crucial position; Heather’s many great qualities stood out in a strong pool, and I am delighted to welcome her to Bowdoin. She will join us on August 1.
Heather will lead an accomplished development and alumni relations (DAR) team and serve as a member of my senior leadership group. She will play a critical role in guiding the Bowdoin efforts that build and maintain ties with more than 23,000 alumni, and she will be a key strategic leader and partner in sustaining the financial support and broad engagement of alumni, parents, and friends of the College around the world.
Many of you have heard me say that my first impressions of Bowdoin were around the strength of the community, the warmth of the people I met, and the loyalty of our alumni. As I have moved through my first year, I have learned so much more about the lifelong connectedness of Bowdoin people—to each other, to faculty and staff, and to the College broadly speaking—and those experiences helped to inform my sense of who should lead DAR in the years ahead. Heather’s deep experience, ability to connect, team orientation and enthusiasm for Bowdoin and Maine left no doubt that she was our first choice, and I look forward to introducing her to all of you this summer.
Heather’s previous experience includes thirteen years in roles of increasing responsibility at her alma mater, the University of Richmond, as well as at the Library of Virginia Foundation and the University of Chicago. In addition, she and her husband, Robb Moore, have spent significant time in Maine over the years, much of it in northern and western Maine in connection with Robb’s earning his Registered Maine Guide certification. I am grateful to the members of the search committee listed below for their careful and thoughtful work over the past eight months, and to Scott Meiklejohn for graciously rejoining the College as interim senior vice president for development and alumni relations this past year.
I look forward to working with Heather over the coming years, and I know you will all join me in welcoming Heather to the College community later this summer.
All my best,
Safa
I am writing with the exciting news that Heather Lee Krajewski has been named senior vice president for development and alumni relations.
Heather comes to us from Hampden-Sydney College in Farmville, Virginia, where she has served as vice president for college advancement since 2018. Her appointment follows a comprehensive national search that yielded an impressive pool of candidates for this crucial position; Heather’s many great qualities stood out in a strong pool, and I am delighted to welcome her to Bowdoin. She will join us on August 1.
Heather will lead an accomplished development and alumni relations (DAR) team and serve as a member of my senior leadership group. She will play a critical role in guiding the Bowdoin efforts that build and maintain ties with more than 23,000 alumni, and she will be a key strategic leader and partner in sustaining the financial support and broad engagement of alumni, parents, and friends of the College around the world.
Many of you have heard me say that my first impressions of Bowdoin were around the strength of the community, the warmth of the people I met, and the loyalty of our alumni. As I have moved through my first year, I have learned so much more about the lifelong connectedness of Bowdoin people—to each other, to faculty and staff, and to the College broadly speaking—and those experiences helped to inform my sense of who should lead DAR in the years ahead. Heather’s deep experience, ability to connect, team orientation and enthusiasm for Bowdoin and Maine left no doubt that she was our first choice, and I look forward to introducing her to all of you this summer.
Heather’s previous experience includes thirteen years in roles of increasing responsibility at her alma mater, the University of Richmond, as well as at the Library of Virginia Foundation and the University of Chicago. In addition, she and her husband, Robb Moore, have spent significant time in Maine over the years, much of it in northern and western Maine in connection with Robb’s earning his Registered Maine Guide certification. I am grateful to the members of the search committee listed below for their careful and thoughtful work over the past eight months, and to Scott Meiklejohn for graciously rejoining the College as interim senior vice president for development and alumni relations this past year.
I look forward to working with Heather over the coming years, and I know you will all join me in welcoming Heather to the College community later this summer.
All my best,
Safa
Senior Vice President for Development and Alumni Relations Search Committee
Alison Bennie, associate vice president for communications
Kristin Brennan, executive director of career exploration and development
Linda Tan Buckley ’07, senior associate director of stewardship
Allison Crosscup, director of academic advancement and strategic priorities
Benje Douglas, senior vice president for inclusion and diversity
Pamela Fletcher ’89, professor of art history
Katie Kurtz ’24, student
Eli Orlic, senior vice president and special assistant to the president & secretary of the college
Tim Ryan ’98, Ashmead White Director of Athletics
Safa Zaki, president