Lisa Goldberg, 54, Foundation Head

Lisa Goldberg, president of the Charles H. Revson Foundation, died Monday at 54.

Goldberg, wife of New York University's president, John Sexton, died at St. Vincent's Hospital in Manhattan after suffering a brain aneurism on Sunday evening, NYU announced.

Born in Brookline, Mass., on May 1, 1952, Goldberg attended Radcliffe College and Harvard Law School, where she graduated with honors in 1979. While at Harvard, she met and married Mr. Sexton, then also a law student.

Goldberg served as a senior staff member and legal counsel to the President's Commission for a National Agenda for the Eighties, established by President Carter. She also was a consultant to the Federal Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia and director of a Boston family court program.

In 1982, she joined the Revson Foundation as a program officer. She was named president in 2003.

Under her leadership, the foundation, which boasts a $180 million endowment, funded a number of prominent public television series, including "Heritage: Civilization and the Jews" (1984) and "Eyes on the Prize" (1987). It also funded a number of Jewish, children's, and public policy projects.

Goldberg is survived by her husband, her children Katherine Lodgen Sexton and Jed Sexton, and three granddaughters; also surviving are a brother, Phillip Goldberg, who is American ambassador to Bolivia, and a sister, Donna Eskind.