The Gilder Lehrman Institute Welcomes Bryn Canner as Director of Development

The Gilder Lehrman Institute is delighted to welcome Bryn Canner as Director of Development.

Bryn Canner has been working in the nonprofit sector for twenty years, devoting the majority of her career to education organizations seeking to achieve system-wide impact by providing professional development, instructional resources, and useful strategies to teachers in critical content areas.

Most recently, Bryn served as Director of Institutional Giving at Uncommon Schools. Before that she was Vice President of Advancement at ExpandED Schools. She has also worked as Director of Development for Virtual Enterprises International, Inc. and helped to guide the growth of several other organizations focused on areas of education as diverse as the arts, literacy, STEM, and postsecondary success.

Says Bryn, “As a fundraiser, I work with colleagues to identify opportunities for programmatic innovation and growth while also mobilizing the external resources to make this vision a reality. I look forward to heading development for a world-class organization focused on a subject that is foundational to our democracy and civic life: American history.”

“GLI is unique in uniting the worlds of scholarship and academia with K–12 educational programming,” she notes. “As such, working at GLI offers me a long-sought opportunity to bring together different aspects of my own career and to experience the satisfactions of supporting an organization whose reach is meaningful and global.”

Bryn received her bachelor’s degree in comparative literature from Brown University. She completed her master’s degree in English literature at Princeton University before deciding to pivot from a possible career in academia to the social sector.