Sylvia Racca, Executive Director, Dartmouth College Fund & Special Fundraising Initiatives

Sylvia Racca joined Dartmouth in December, 2002, as the Executive Director of the Dartmouth College Fund. Sylvia has been in fund-raising for higher education for 16 years. Prior to Dartmouth she served first as the Director of the Annual Fund, and then as Director of Development, at Scripps College in Claremont, California, which is one of the Claremont Colleges along with Pomona, Claremont McKenna and Harvey Mudd. Before moving west, she served as an Assistant Director in the Alumnae Fund of Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts.

Prior to her career in higher education, Sylvia enjoyed a successful and engaging career for a decade syndicating tax-advantaged investments in commercial, historic, and multifamily real estate throughout the United States with Atlantic Equity Corporation in Boston, Massachusetts.