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Margaret McKenna, JD, is a civil rights attorney and academic and former president of Suffolk University. McKenna was previously the president of Lesley University in Cambridge and president of the Walmart Foundation, granting more than $900 million in cash and in-kind donations to nonprofit organizations. She led Lesley and its teacher training programs to national recognition.