Dana Schmidt

Program Director – Echidna Giving

Sustaining Member

Dana is the Program Director for Echidna Giving, a private funder supporting the best ways to educate girls in lower-income countries so they can create a positive ripple effect in their families, communities, and nations. Before joining Echidna as its first full-time employee in 2016, Dana was a program officer at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, where she helped to develop and run a ten-year, $125 million grantmaking initiative to improve the quality of education that children receive in historically low- and middle-income countries.