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Heather Graham

Director, Learning Differences Programme

Oak Foundation

Heather Graham is Program Director at the Oak Foundation for its Learning Differences Program. With its headquarters in Switzerland, Oak Foundation commits its resources to address issues of global, social and environmental concern. The Learning Differences Program is committed to building a world in which schools unlock the creativity and power of every young person and equip them to shape more just and equitable communities. Previously, Heather served as a Principal with Education First and a Program Officer with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. In those roles she provided strategic and business planning, operations and governance support to non-profits and developed funding coalitions with national, regional and global foundations. Prior to joining the Gates Foundation, Heather served as a Vice President with Teach For America, a White House Fellow with the United States government and a Program Associate with the Annie E. Casey Foundation. Heather spent a year in Chengdu, China as a Henry Luce Scholar and she began her career as a middle school teacher in the South Bronx with Teach For America. Heather earned an M.A. in Public Affairs from Princeton University, attended L’Institut des Etudes Politiques in Aix-en-Provence, France, and received a B.A. with honors from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

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