Dana François is the Haiti Program Officer for Family Economic Security of the Latin America and Caribbean team for the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. She leads, manages, designs, and executes a $33 million portfolio strategy through racial and gender equity, community engagement, and leadership lenses connected with health and educational initiatives. She leads the HPLN and the SVLC, both cross-sectoral coalitions of over 130 global actors whose efforts in sustainable agricultural production and food security, in 2020, afforded locally sourced nutritional food to 8,056 schoolchildren, income opportunities for 14,300 families. For over 20 years, Dana has focused on increasing economic outcomes for families through ecosystem development in; sustainable agriculture, arts and crafts, community-led food systems, strategic partnerships, coalition building, philanthropic engagement, catalyzing capital. An entrepreneurial leader passionate about racial, economic justice, and catalyzing impact investment capital, Dana adopts solutions-oriented, collaborative, asset-based, racial equity, and systems change frameworks to support efforts tackling poverty, marginalization, inequity, social and environmental injustice. Dana's commitment to global sustainable development stems from her first-hand experience with the impact of climate change and international policies on smallholder farmer livelihood in the Latin America and Caribbean region. As a youth leader and writer, she advocated for equitable, sustainable, regional economic policies for rural families in 1995. After joining the Haitian State University, she led relief efforts coordinating five universities to provide medical care, food, and school supplies to families affected by disasters. In 2005, she emigrated to the United States. Dana leveraged her strategic partnership experience and sector knowledge to work with the University of Massachusetts President's Office, the Trotter Institute, and a consortium of 19 global Higher Ed institutions to strengthen the Haitian National Higher Education system for young Haitians. In tandem, as an Assistant Researcher at the University's Center for Social Policy, she contributed to the development of critical socio-economic policy recommendations to expand social service access to minority and low-income families, including Haitian refugees' post-earthquake, within Boston. Throughout her career, Dana was acknowledged for her leadership and commitment to sustainability, racial and economic justice, with the "Who's making Massachusetts Strong" recognition and the University of Massachusetts Boston Beacon Leader award.

Dana is an ABFE Connecting Fellow and a Social Innovation Leader of the Babson College Lewis Institute. She holds a dual bachelor's degree from UMass Boston in Economics and Political Science and an MBA from Babson College in Entrepreneurship & Social Innovation. In 2017, Dana earned a certificate from the Emerging Leaders Program of the Harvard Kennedy School. In 2020, she received two certificates on Measuring Impact for Sustainability and Innovative Finance Solutions for Resilience and the SDGs from the IIX Impact Institute. Dana is fluent in Haitian Creole and French. She resides in Wellesley, Massachusetts, with her family, where she enjoys time with her dog Myra, vegan baking, and food photography when she isn't traveling to Haiti.