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(212) 217-3620
(212) 217-3621 fax
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Staff
Lucia DeRespinis
Executive Director of Grants Administration
(212) 217-3625
Lucia DeRespinis joined FIT in 2016 with 25 years of senior management experience at leading nonprofit cultural and educational institutions. For most of that time, she has supervised Advancement offices with a focus on raising support from foundations, government agencies, corporations and individuals. Lucia's hands-on knowledge of grantsmanship extends from program development, pitching, research and grant-writing, to serving on grant review panels. Lucia received her BA in Art History from Sarah Lawrence College and her MS in Non-profit Management from The New School's Milano School of International Affairs, Management & Urban Policy; and she was a Smithsonian Institution Palmer Leadership Fellow.