Dan Kent is a first-year MPP student at the Jackson School of Global Affairs, focusing on democracy and technology.
 
Prior to attending Jackson, Dan’s career spanned international education, research, and philanthropy. At the Mellon Foundation, he led strategic research initiatives for his team and managed a program portfolio of over $100 million in grants. He has also served as a policy researcher at Research for Action, where he consulted for public sector and nonprofit clients. His first full-time position was at Yale-NUS College, where he traveled to Latin America, Central Asia, and Eastern Europe, developing partnerships across his portfolio of over 60 countries.
 
Dan has a bachelor’s degree in finance and music from William & Mary, where he won the Ewell Award for leadership and the Dalton Award for commitment to public service. He also holds an MSEd from the University of Pennsylvania, which he attended as the Dean’s Centennial Scholar of his cohort. He has attended both the Middlebury Summer Chinese Language School as a Davis Fellow for Peace and the National Taiwan Normal University as a Huayu Scholar.