Program Officer for Family Economic Security Latin America and the CaribbeanW.K. Kellogg Foundation
Dana François is a LAC Program Officer of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. She holds a family economic security portfolio and applies equity, systems-change, and ecosystem-building lenses. She leads several cross-sectoral coalitions of over 130 global actors whose efforts advance economic development, sustainable agricultural production, capital, market access, and food systems for thousands of producers, schoolchildren, entrepreneurs, and small, micro-enterprises and biodiversity as Board Chair for the Haiti Biodiversity Fund. For over 20 years, she has focused on increasing economic and livelihood outcomes through system-change efforts in sustainable agriculture, business, community-led food systems, strategic partnerships, coalition building, philanthropic engagement, and catalyzing capital. Dana is an Innovation Leader of the Babson College Lewis Institute and a NEID Global board governance & DEI chair. At home with family, she enjoys her dog Myra, vegan baking and food photography