Christine Dixon
Executive Director, Someone Else’s Child

Christine Dixon is Someone Else’s Child’s first Executive Director and is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the foundation and working with the Board to fulfill SEC’s mission and expand its scope and impact. Christine joined Someone Else’s Child with over 20 years of experience working with children and families experiencing poverty and homelessness in low-income communities of Boston. She is passionate about living and working in racially and culturally diverse neighborhoods of the city, growing emerging leaders from these communities, leading programs and organizations that are vital to the well-being of neighborhood residents, and connecting people and institutions that can do more together.

For close to 11 years, Christine worked at Project Hope Boston, a nonprofit organization committed to partnering with families in the Roxbury/North Dorchester community on a pathway out of poverty. She took on the role of Executive Director at Project Hope in November 2017, stepping in at a pivotal time for Project Hope, soon after the retirement of Project Hope’s iconic founder. While at Project Hope, Christine developed new programs and strategic partnerships, grew the agency with additional funding, contracts, and staff, and led the organization through a strategic planning process to commit its efforts to a place-based neighborhood strategy. Along with other Project Hope leaders, she worked collaboratively with community partners to create and grow the Family Led Stability Initiative and the Nubian Neighborhood Network, both critical coalitions focused on child and family homelessness, educational and employment success for residents of the Roxbury and Dorchester communities, and healthy families and communities.

Prior to her time at Project Hope, Christine worked directly with children and families experiencing homelessness and poverty through the Department of Public Health’s FOR Families program and at Dimock Community Health Center’s Head Start and Early Head Start Programs. As a licensed clinical social worker, she provided support, resources, and collaboratively developed solutions to family-level and systemic challenges.

Christine graduated from the College of the Holy Cross with a Bachelor of Arts, as an English major, she received her Master’s in Social Work from Boston University, and she completed a certificate program at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business in Nonprofit Leadership and Management. She lives in Roslindale with her husband Lee Roy and their teenage son, Nathan.