Kimberlee Schumacher is an experienced interim executive who has served as Interim CEO/Executive Director of Epilepsy Foundation New England, Jeff’s Place Children’s Bereavement Center,, Boston Preservation Alliance, Boston Society for Architecture, and the Jewish Federation of the North Shore, and as Interim Chief Strategy and Operations Officer at Gateways. She brings more than twenty years of experience leading health and human services organizations and is passionate about building strong, equitable organizations, teams, and leaders.

Kimberlee began her career as a management consultant working across industries. She went on to senior leadership roles, including CEO of a Big Brothers Big Sisters affiliate, Vice President at Combined Jewish Philanthropies, and Senior Director of Health Care Services at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts.

Kimberlee brings a calm presence and a collaborative leadership style to organizations facing change. She has led educational, advocacy, health, membership, and faith-based organizations through redesigns, mergers and acquisitions, turnarounds, succession and strategic planning, crisis response, and significant fundraising growth. She has also trained and coached CEOs and board leaders on building healthy organizations through strong strategy, finance, DEI, fundraising, governance, and operations practices, and has taught numerous graduate courses in leadership and financial management.

Kimberlee has served on the Boards of Directors of Epilepsy Foundation New England and FoodLink, a food rescue organization in Arlington, MA.

She holds a BA from Brandeis University, an MA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and an MBA from Northeastern University. In December 2026 she will complete her PsyD in organizational leadership, with a concentration in inclusive leadership, at William James College. Her doctoral research examines how interim nonprofit executives build trust during time-limited tenures.

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