Her maternal roots come from the city of Telenesti in Bessarabia, from a family of rabbis. In May 2020, Leah Rosovsky became the seventeenth leader in the Athenæum's 213-year history. Rosovsky served as the Dean's Administrative Fellow at Harvard Business School in 2019, driving complex projects requiring relationship building, creativity, and execution. As Harvard University's Vice President for Strategies and Programs from 2013- 2019, she led numerous successful initiatives including partnering with senior faculty to raise $20 million and establish the Harvard Global Institute (HGI), enhancing glo- bal influence and scholarship; advancing the work of a task force on the prevention of sexual assault; collaborating in the development of a strategy for increasing visibility of the arts; and building consensus and implementation plans to integrate faith traditions into student educational development. As the Executive Administrative Dean of Tufts University's School of Arts and Sciences (2006-2013), Rosovsky oversaw a broad range of initiatives in planning, strategy, and resource allocation. Her accomplishments in- cluded increasing financial aid funding, leading library renovation planning to meet faculty's emerging interests in technology-based teaching and learning, and enhan- cing laboratory space. She also led financial and budget planning that allowed for the creation of1 5 tenure-track positions.