Alison Overseth
PASE
(she/her)
Alison Overseth is the Chief Executive Officer of the Partnership for After School Education (PASE), a nonprofit which works with hundreds of community-based organizations, higher education institutions, philanthropy, and corporate partners to improve the quality of opportunities available to young people living in poverty in New York City. With over 30 years of experience in the youth serving profession, Ms. Overseth directed a management initiative for the Fund for the City of New York to strengthen the non-profit agencies that provide community support for young people, and served as the founding President of the Board of Directors of PASE for 12 years. Ms. Overseth is trustee emerita of Smith College, where she chaired the Board of Trustees from 2020-2025. She is on the Board of Directors of The New York Women’s Foundation; is a trustee of Bank Street College of Education; has served on the Advisory Board of The Tamer Institute for Social Enterprise and Climate Change at Columbia Business School; and has taught leadership courses at Bank Street College of Education. Ms. Overseth was a Director at The First Boston Corporation, specializing in corporate restructurings, from 1984-1992. Ms. Overseth is a graduate of Smith College and Columbia Business School.
