Steven L. Isenberg
New York, NY
Steve Isenberg served as Chairman of the Board and interim President at Adelphi University, where he is now Chairman Emeritus. He was given an honorary doctorate for his service. Isenberg has been a Visiting Professor of Humanities at The University of Texas for three years. He has had four careers in city government, law, newspapers, and academia. Isenberg has served as Chief of Hall to Mayor John V. Lindsay, practiced as a litigator in the firm of Breed, Abbott & Morgan, and was a publisher and senior newspaper executive at the Los Angeles Times, Newsday and New York Newsday, the Stanford Advocate, and Greenwich Time.
Former President of the Executive Advisory Board of the College of Letters and Science at Berkeley, Isenberg has taught courses on twentieth-century literature, politics, and media at The University of Texas at Austin, as well as at Yale, the University of California at Berkeley, Davidson College as Batten Professor of Public Policy, and the New School. He received three degrees in English literature—a B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley, and a B.A. and M.A. from Worcester College, Oxford—and a J.D. from Yale Law School.
His wife, Barbara, is the Founder and President of the North American Bear Co., and their son, Christopher, is a freelance writer.
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Director Thomas F. Staley discusses the importance of philanthropy at the Ransom Center.
