Roxanne Spillett

Roxanne Spillett leads the largest network of facility-based youth development organizations in the world. Boys & Girls Clubs of America's 1,100 local affiliates operate some 4,000 Club locations throughout the nation and on U.S. military installations worldwide. Spillett's 1996 appointment to the presidency of BGCA marked a new era. She led BGCA through a decade of major expansion, implementing a growth strategy that doubled the size and scope of the Boys & Girls Club network and tripled its revenues. Spillett joined BGCA as director of the National Health Project. In the course of her career, she was promoted to positions of increasing responsibility, including vice president of the Northeast division and senior vice president of Program Services. Spillett earned her bachelor's degree in education from the State University of New York, and did graduate work in guidance and counseling at St. Lawrence University. She also studied public health administration at Hunter College in New York. Today, she teaches graduate students in the nonprofit management program at the Mendoza College of Business at Notre Dame.