Eileen White Read

Board Member

 Eileen White Read, a retired nonprofit CEO and a former Wall Street Journal reporter, is a freelance writer/editor, board member, and a University of California-certified Master Gardener. After retiring from the Journal, Eileen served as a communications project director at the Center for American Progress in Washington, D.C., and as a communications consultant specializing in international NGOs. She and her husband Charles have maintained a Santa Barbara residence since 1993, and her writing about environmental and housing issues has appeared in several local media. She serves on the Huntington Library’s Board of Governors Education and Volunteers Committee and has been a member of its Society of Fellows for 35 years.

Eileen’s current board service includes Hands Across Montecito, Santa Barbara Action for Community Transformation (SB-ACT), and the Santa Barbara County Human Services Commission. She was awarded a Knight-Bagehot Fellowship in Business Journalism at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.