Dana provides financial oversight to our global partners, supports the grants team, and strengthens operational systems across our international programs. She especially enjoys collaborating with global partners to advance our mission.

Previously, she provided financial oversight, budgeting, and forecasting for a variety of USAID-funded programs in Africa and the Middle East while working for World Education and Inclusive Development Partners, coordinated a $37+ million USAID proposal, and even helped present to Jordan’s Ministry of Education. Dana holds degrees from the University of Michigan (B.A. in Middle Eastern Studies) and Harvard (M.Ed. in International Education Policy), and she is an intermediate-level Arabic and Spanish speaker. Originally from Massachusetts, she now lives in Colorado with her husband and two young daughters and enjoys hiking, dancing, and exploring international cuisine. She also serves as a treasurer for a small nonprofit in Boulder that brings cathartic movement to prisons in the United States.