Alyssa Trometter, PhD

Dr. Alyssa Trometter is President & CEO of Connect Community, a place-based nonprofit driving equitable neighborhood revitalization in southwest Houston. She assumed leadership in 2025 following a decade at the Clinton Foundation, where she most recently served as Managing Director. There, she led programs that supported early-stage entrepreneurs and social enterprises, advancing community-driven solutions to global challenges. She joined the Clinton Foundation as a postdoctoral fellow through The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies.

Alyssa has previously served as an educational advisor at the U.S. Department of State and held leadership roles in higher education admissions and student support at Schwarzman Scholars, the College of the Holy Cross, and the University of Melbourne.

She holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne and a BA from the College of the Holy Cross, where she competed as an NCAA Division I rower. Alyssa is the author of Aboriginal Black Power and the Rise of the Australian Black Panther Party, 1967–1972, published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2021.