Deborah Dugan
Former president and CEO of The Recording Academy
Former Chief Executive Officer of (RED)
CEO of Beyond Type 1
2019–2020
Harvey Mason Jr. (interim)
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Early life and career[edit]
Dugan grew up on Long Island and in Florida. Her father was Thomas Dugan, who worked for a time in the U.S. Justice Department and served as inspector general of the Peace Corps under Sargent Shriver, and her mother was a homemaker. Thomas died when she was six, and she worked from a young age. She attended the University of Florida, majoring in education, making the dean's list, and graduated. She then went to and graduated from the University of Utah Law School.[2][3] Dugan became a corporate attorney on Wall Street[4] while doing pro-bono work for Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts.[2]
Board memberships and associations[edit]
Dugan is on the board of the Moth,[29] co-chairing it since 2008,[3][30] and the London-and-Nairobi-based creative nonprofit Girl Effect.[31][32] She is also on the board of advisors of CITYarts.[33]
Dugan is a member of Association of American Publishers, MPA – The Association of Magazine Media, and International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.[3]