With more than 25 years of nonprofit leadership experience, Caitlin Connolly partners with mission-driven organizations to build systems that strengthen operations, improve collaboration, and turn strategy into action.

Most recently, Caitlin served for more than six years as Chief Strategy Officer at the National Employment Law Project (NELP), where she was a member of the executive management team. She previously served as NELP’s Deputy Chief of Programs, Director of Social Insurance, and Home Care Campaign Coordinator. In these roles, Caitlin helped build and refine operational best practices including annual work planning processes, campaign project plans, and team engagement and coordination.

Caitlin brings deep expertise in leading complex policy and advocacy initiatives in partnership with diverse stakeholders. As NELP’s Home Care Fair Pay Campaign Coordinator, Caitlin worked on the 2015 federal home care rule, which granted federal minimum wage and overtime rights under the Fair Labor Standards Act. Prior, Caitlin served as Project Director of the Eldercare Workforce Alliance (EWA), a coalition of 35 national organizations dedicated to strengthening the direct care workforce and improving care for older adults. She also worked at the American Geriatrics Society (AGS), managing research, policy, quality improvement, and development initiatives with the society’s professional health care member-leaders. With nearly a decade of leading workgroups, campaigns, and coalitions, Caitlin understands the tools and skills needed to coalesce and align partners.

Caitlin has more than eight years of direct service experience working with older adults, people with disabilities, children, youth, and families in supportive, low-income, and public housing communities in Boston and Washington, DC. Those experiences have always informed her policy work.

Caitlin's expertise has been featured in The New York Times, USA Today, Forbes, Bloomberg, and other national media outlets.

She holds a Master of Public Administration from Baruch College, a Graduate Certificate in Women in Politics and Public Policy from the University of Massachusetts Boston, and a bachelor's degree from The George Washington University.