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Carolyn Webb de Macías was appointed vice president for external relations in January 2002. She provides strategic direction and leadership for the university’s outreach programs, including civic and community relations, government relations, the Community Education Academy and the Good Neighbors Campaign as well as federal- and state-funded educational and economic-development programs, including the TRIO Programs and School of Early Childhood Education. She also co-chairs USC’s effort to develop a master plan to guide future campus development, and she is an adjunct faculty member in the USC Rossier School of Education.
Prior to her appointment as vice president, Webb de Macías was senior associate provost at USC, serving as facilitator for USC’s Arts Initiative, as the provost’s liaison to the deans of four arts schools and to the director of the USC Fisher Gallery. She also played a key role in developing and implementing components of the $20 million Women in Science and Engineering Program.
During the 2005-2006 academic year, Webb de Macías took a partial sabbatical from USC to work with the City of Los Angeles as a senior advisor to the mayor. Previously, she was chief of staff for Los Angeles City Councilman Mark Ridley-Thomas from 1991 to 1997. In this capacity, she served as chief policy adviser on the councilman’s legislative agenda. She served as Los Angeles area vice president for Pacific Bell from 1985 to 1989.
Webb de Macías is president of the state board of the California African American Museum and serves on the USC National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center Executive Board, the Los Angeles African American Women’s Public Policy Institute and the Central City Association Executive Committee. She is a founding president of the Education Consortium of Central Los Angeles, is past president of the Martin Luther King Legacy Association and was honored in 2006 for her work as a founding member of the Young Black Scholars of Los Angeles. She also served on the First Five LA advisory board for the development of the Los Angeles Universal Pre-School Master Plan.
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