Nate Anderson, a project manager at JFF, works with Making Opportunity Affordable, an initiative to improve productivity at two-year and four-year public colleges. He focuses on the initiative’s Opportunity Grant Program, a multiyear, national effort that promotes innovation in higher education state policy.
Anderson joined JFF in 2007 as an intern, working with Achieving the Dream, a national initiative to help more community college students succeed (earn degrees, earn certificates, or transfer to other institutions to continue their studies). He also worked as an executive search and Web development consultant for Making Opportunity Affordable. Before coming to JFF, he taught English in Japan to middle school, high school, and adult learners as part of the Japanese Exchange and Teaching (JET) program.
Anderson holds a B.A. from Bowdoin College, a Master’s in Japanese history and Asian Pacific studies from the University of Toronto, and a Master’s in Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.