Tulaine Montgomery is a futurist, creative, educator, and, above all, a true believer that a better world is possible.
As the CEO of New Profit, she leads a coalition of social entrepreneurs and changemakers advancing a vision for an America where everyone can thrive.
Tulaine Montgomery is an entrepreneur, educator, writer, and organizer. She has played leadership roles in the launch and expansion of social enterprises across the U.S., the Caribbean, East Africa, Indonesia, and South Africa.
Tulaine currently serves as CEO of New Profit, a venture philanthropy organization that backs visionary leaders who are scaling innovations and transforming our nation’s most important and often inequitable systems. During her time at New Profit, Tulaine has led initiatives focused on strengthening education-to-employment pathways for underserved youth, driving resources and support to entrepreneurs who have been directly impacted by the American legal system, and building a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive organization and philanthropic sector.
Tulaine has also served as the lead architect of New Profit’s Inclusive Impact strategy and Proximate Capital fund, which seeks to bridge the resource gap faced by Black, Latine/x, Indigenous, rural, and other underinvested social entrepreneurs.
Tulaine serves as the board chair for GirlTrek and on the boards of Beyond 12 and College for Social Innovation. Her writing has been featured in Stanford Social Innovation Review, The Root, Worth Media, and more. She is the recipient of several awards recognizing her commitment to social impact including ASU+GSV’s Innovator of Color award and the Social Innovator of the Year award from the University of New Hampshire.
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5 THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT TULAINE:
Tulaine is an accomplished cellist.
She has written and produced 5 original plays.
She was a foster parent for three teenage girls in her early twenties.
In her spare time, she does improv and stand-up comedy.
She designed the nation’s first Masters Degree in Education with a concentration in Out of School Time.