neighbors
“I’VE BEEN A FEMINIST MY ENTIRE CAREER. I BELIEVE THAT MAKING THE WORKPLACE MORE DIVERSE
AND INCLUSIVE FOR WOMEN AND PEOPLE OF COLOR WILL BENEFIT US ALL.”
PAMELA KRUGER , VICE PRESIDENT OF CONTENT AND DIGITAL, CATALYST
SHE JOINED CATALYST AFTER YEARS
IN JOURNALISM. Kruger decided to
join the organization after spending
most of her career as a journalist.
She has written for and/or edited
publications ranging from The New
York Times and Fast Company to
AOL and CBS Interactive.
Kruger’s last job in journalism
was at Fortune magazine as deputy
digital editor. She was responsible for
a range of news coverage, including
an article that examined candidate
Donald Trump’s social media ties to
white supremacists. In late 2016, she
left Fortune to work as digital and
editorial director at Columbia Law
School. She launched the school’s
social and content strategy, and built
the digital team.
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SHE’S PASSIONATE ABOUT HER
MISSION AT CATALYST. At Catalyst,
“I manage a team of designers, edi-
tors, writers, and web producers, and
I oversee the creation of videos, print
materials, web content, op-eds – vir-
tually any communications materials
across all our platforms,” she says.
“I left [Columbia Law School] in
late 2018 to join Catalyst because
I am passionate about the mission,
and it was an opportunity to use
my digital and creative skills to help
the organization increase its impact
around the world.”
SHE THINKS COMPANIES ARE
FINALLY FOCUSING ON EMPOW-
ERING WOMEN. “Change has been
glacial. In the early 2000s, I wrote
an article that was headlined some-
thing like, ‘Why aren’t there more
women at the top?’” she says. “More
than 15 years later, we are still faced
with the same questions. We know
the answers – sexism, unconscious
bias, maternity bias, lots of struc-
tural barriers. But with the #MeToo
movement, we are at an incredible
moment, when many companies are
taking dramatic steps to make big
change. So, now I am cautiously
optimistic.”
SHE’S NOT THE ONLY EXECUTIVE
AT CATALYST TO CHOOSE THE
MILLBURN-SHORT HILLS AREA.
“I just discovered that our new
COO, Stacey Bain, lived in Short
Hills for 20 plus years! She moved
four years ago to another part of
New Jersey.” ■