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Dana Schmidt joined the Quality Education for Developing Countries initiative at the Foundation in October 2006 as a recipient of the Tom Ford Fellowship in Philanthropy. The fellowship is offered through Stanford University’s Haas Center for Public Service. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford University in 2005 with an undergraduate degree in Economics and African Studies. As an undergraduate, Dana spent time teaching secondary school students in both Kenya and Zambia. She also spent the summer of 2005 as a Philanthropy Fellow at the Foundation, working with the Regional Grants and Philanthropy programs. In 2006 she completed her master’s degree in International Educational Administration and Policy Analysis at the Stanford University School of Education, writing her thesis on the impact of the elimination of primary school fees on enrollment in Kenya. | 