Jennifer Ratay

Jennifer Ratay directs the Foundation’s Organizational Effectiveness program, a grants program that strengthens the organizational health of Hewlett grantees. Since joining the Foundation in 2007, she also has worked with Foundation leadership to enhance foundation-wide planning, evaluation, and learning systems and managed grants aimed at improving the effectiveness of the philanthropic field.

Formerly, Jen served as associate director of the Public Management Program at the Center for Social Innovation within the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She also served as Stanford MBA Admissions Officer overseeing the recruitment of nonprofit and female applicants. Jen has been a fellow at The Pew Charitable Trusts, consultant to the Aspen Institute, and legislative aide to former U.S. Representative Marty Meehan, for whom she managed energy, environment, and international relations initiatives. Earlier in her career, she focused on aligning international trade and environmental policies while working at the National Wildlife Federation, Worldwatch Institute, and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development in Geneva, Switzerland.

Jen earned her B.A. in government and environmental studies from Dartmouth College and M.P.A. in international development from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. She serves as an Ashoka U advisor and as a lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where she co-teaches an MBA course, Critical Analytical Thinking.

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