Oral history interview with Yolonda C. Richardson 1999
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- Name
- Richardson, Yolonda C (Interviewee)
- Zane, Sharon (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Yolonda C. Richardson 1999
- Other Titles
- Reminiscences of Yolonda C. Richardson : oral history, 1999
- Abstract
- Childhood in Louisiana; family history; education at Dillard University and Yale Law School; travels in Africa during law school; recruitment by New York law firms; employment at Carnegie Corporation; difficulty adapting to atmosphere of Carnegie office; changes in the foundation's leadership; role of program officers in the corporation; comparison of Carnegie Corporation to other organizations; ex periences seeing how other foundations operate budgets at Beijing Conference; involvement in Carnegie initiatives: establishment of gender sector in South Africa, public health initiatives at University of Ghana, Preventing Deadly Conflict initiative; lack of communication with grantees; decision to leave Carnegie Corporation.
- Collection Name
- Carnegie Corporation project. Part 2
- Subjects
- African American women lawyers; Endowments--Officials and employees; Health promotion; Maternal health services; Richardson, Yolonda C; Carnegie Corporation of New York
- Format
- oral histories
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1999
- Physical Description
- 99 pages
- Note (Biographical)
- Attorney
- Note (Funding)
- Digital reproduction funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
- Note
- Digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia, 2010.
- Service copy (44 kHz, 16 bit) and rendered version (96 kHz, 24 bit) of sound file derived from a digital preservation master digitized at 96 kHz, 24 bit.
- Interviewed by Sharon Zane on January 8 and July 1, 1999
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content - Catalog Record
- 7586768
- Also In
- Oral History Archives at Columbia
- Carnegie Corporation Oral History Project [Staging]
- Copyright Status
- In Copyright
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-dxty-3566
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.