Stewart Gamage

Stewart Gamage serves as Director of the Morven Project at the Foundation. Her responsibilities at Morven include coordination of strategic planning, research initiatives and academic programs that help position the University of Virginia in the national and international market place.

Her experience draws from a wide range of assignments, including Vice President for Public Affairs at College of William and Mary; Chief Operating Officer of APCO Associates, one of the largest public affairs firms in Washington, D.C.; Policy Director to former House Majority Leader, Dick Gephardt; Director of the Virginia Liaison Office and Senior Assistant to Governors Charles Robb and Gerald Baliles; and Associate Deputy of Intergovernmental Affairs at the White House during the Carter Administration. In 1999, she was appointed by President Bill Clinton to the Commission for Presidential Scholars.

She graduated summa cum laude from William and Mary in 1972 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Fine Arts, and earned her MPA from the Washington Public Affairs Center at the University of Southern California in 1979.

In 2005, she received the Governor’s Award for community Service from Governor Mark Warner.

Stewart is a founding director of the Phoenix Project, and serves on the state board of the Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership.