Rebecca Lendl
Executive Director
Rebecca is a seasoned social impact leader with more than 20 years of experience advancing organizational growth at the intersection of art, culture, and technology. Her work spans vision and strategic planning, institutional and team design, and the cultivation of deep, values-aligned partnerships with stakeholders and philanthropists. Throughout her career, she has worked alongside visionary leaders to shape bold ideas into meaningful impact.
Under Rebecca’s leadership, The Long Now Foundation has taken on the ambitious work of reimagining the institution — distilling the learnings of its founding era, reorienting to the present moment, and modeling a generational transition designed to endure. During this period, Long Now has launched a new chapter of Long Now Talks, reimagined its home for long-term thinking at the award-winning Interval at Long Now, published its new annual print journal Pace Layers, launched new projects including Centuries of the Bristlecone, and inaugurated The Council at Long Now. Prior to Long Now, Rebecca served as Chief Operating Officer at the Center for Humane Technology, the organization featured in the Emmy Award–winning Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma. Previously, she served at leading cultural institutions in the San Francisco Bay Area and New York, including Creative Commons, Headlands Center for the Arts, Creative Time, and MoMA PS1.
Rebecca is deeply interested in the intersections of consciousness, creativity, frontier ideas, and cultural transformation — and in how people and institutions can cultivate wiser ways of being, seeing, and serving over time. Based in Marin, she lives with her husband and two children — an everyday experiment in care, continuity, and the long view.
Long Now Ideas from Rebecca
Launching Long Now’s Second Quarter Century
by Rebecca Lendl & Patrick Dowd
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