Carolyn Moxley Rouse (born c. 1965)[1] is an American anthropologist, professor and filmmaker.
[2] Rouse grew up in Del Mar, California, the daughter of a physicist (her father, Carl A.
[3] She encountered discrimination at an early age as her family was prevented from buying a home in Rancho Santa Fe because of their race.
In her junior year, she studied abroad in Kenya in a program focused on wildlife biology, but found she was much more interested in the people around her, which prompted a turn toward documentary film, then eventually a master's in visual anthropology and a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Southern California.
Cecilia was also the Dean of the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs before stepping down from that position to serve as the Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers for the Biden administration.