About
Feather Houstoun is Senior Advisor for Journalism and Public Media for the Philadelphia-based Wyncote Foundation, and a board member of the newly-formed Independence Public Media Foundation. She was previously President of the William Penn Foundation (2005-2011), whose grantmaking in southeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey focuses in watershed protection and open space preservation, early childhood education, arts and culture, and planning and development.
She has led philanthropic investments in a wide range of media and journalism enterprises spanning legacy media, public broadcasting and digital startups with regional and national coverage.
Feather has served at every level of government, including as a New Jersey township elected official, Cabinet posts in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and senior positions in the Philadelphia transit agency and the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
She has written extensively on public management issues crossing all her areas of professional work; this website reflects that diversity.
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