Mary Macklem is a grants and contracts specialist in the School of Public Policy. Prior to joining SPP, she served as a project consultant with the Equitable Aging Initiative hosted by the George Washington University. She has more than 15 years of experience supporting higher education and research, with expertise in program management, grant and program administration, teaching and public speaking. Macklem worked for more than a decade for the federal government as a senior program officer and administrator at the National Endowment for the Humanities, where she led fellowship research programs for faculty at HBCUs, HSIs and TCUs, delivered regional and national grant-writing workshops, managed the peer review process and administered both pre- and post-award processes.
Macklem holds a bachelor’s degree in music and Italian from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a PhD in musicology from the University of Pennsylvania and a certificate in budget and public finance from the Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration at George Washington University. She is currently pursuing a Master of Public Administration at GW.