Experience
Director, AI Institute, Schmidt Sciences, 2024-present
Schmidt Sciences is a philanthropy co-founded by Eric and Wendy Schmidt that is dedicated to fostering the advancement of science and technology.
Director, Schmidt Futures, 2021-2024
Helped build a large philanthropic portfolio focused on tech for good, shared prosperity, and science. Helped launch grantmaking programs, supervised program teams, helped to build multiple internal systems.
Principal, The Bridgespan Group, 2015-2021
Bridgespan is an advisory firm that serves nonprofits, foundations, and impact investors.
Co-founder and Partner, Instiglio, 2012-2015
Instiglio is a social enterprise that creates impact bonds and results-based financing programs in low- and middle-income countries.
Advisor to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, HKS Government Performance Lab, 2011-2012
Founding member. Supported Massachusetts in its first pay-for-success contract, focused on recidivism.
Associate, Advanced Analytical Consulting Group, 2009-2010
Associate Consultant, Kaiser Associates, 2009-2010
Education
MPP, Harvard Kennedy School, 2012
AB, Economics and Government, Dartmouth College, 2008
Research and teaching
Research Assistant for Professors Bob Higgins and Richard Cavanagh, Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Business School, 2011-2012
Teaching Assistant for Entrepreneurship in the Private and Social Sectors (MLD-830) at Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Business School, 2011-2012
Course Assistant for Markets and Market Failure (API-101) at Harvard Kennedy School, 2010-2011
Teaching Assistant for Empirical Methods (API-202) at Harvard Kennedy School, 2011-2012
Research Assistant for Steven Shavell at the John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Business, Harvard Law School, Summer 2011
Research Assistant for Robert Stowe at the Harvard Environmental Economics Program, Summer 2011
Research Assistant for Jocelyne Cesari at the Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Summer 2010
Research Assistant for Nelson Kasfir at the Department of Government, Dartmouth College, 2007-2008
Research Assistant for Andrew Bernard at the Tuck School of Business, 2005-2006
Awards and fellowships
Forbes 30 Under 30, 2015
Echoing Green Fellow, 2013-2015
Harvard Public Sector Innovation Award, 2012 (the founding Instiglio team is the recipient of this award)
Managing Editor, Harvard Kennedy Review, 2012
Fellow, Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, Harvard University 2010-2012
Colby Prize (for excellence in Government major), Dartmouth College, 2007-2008
Rockefeller Leadership Fellow, Dartmouth College, 2007-2008
War and Peace Fellow, Dartmouth College, 2007-2008
Paganucci Fellow, Tuck School of Business, 2007
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