In addition to her responsibilities as program assistant for Closing the Addiction Treatment Gap, Lindsey Caruso is the program assistant for the OSI-Baltimore Tackling Drug Addiction Program.

Prior to coming to the Open Society Institute, Caruso worked with a multidisciplinary team of professors at Vassar College to create the course “Rethinking New Orleans: For the Future.” This course provided students with an in-depth examination of the social and environmental impacts associated with Hurricane Katrina. Caruso was awarded the Burnam Fellowship to work with the Louisiana Bucket Brigade in their work to respond to the Murphy Oil Spill, a million-gallon oil spill that devastated St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana. On two separate occasions, Caruso was awarded Vassar’s Community Fellowship to do advocacy work with Grace Smith House, a Poughkeepsie domestic violence agency.

A New Orleans native, Caruso holds a BA in urban studies with concentrations in sociology and community organizing from Vassar College.