Nate Anderson

Senior Project Manager, Building Economic Opportunity

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Nate Anderson works on the Accelerating Opportunity and Breaking Through initiatives, both national efforts to improve the success rates of students enrolled in Adult Basic Education. As part of Breaking Through, he provides technical assistance to participating colleges in Kentucky, Michigan, and North Carolina, as well as a cohort of Tribal Colleges. For Accelerating Opportunity, he serves as the state coach for Kentucky and the national policy lead for the project. He also works on the Getting to Scale project, which seeks to capture and disseminate effective practice for bringing postsecondary pilot programs to statewide implementation. 

Previously at JFF, Mr. Anderson worked on Lumina Foundation for Education's Productivity Agenda, an initiative to improve completion rates at two-year and four-year public colleges within the constraints of existing resources. The focal point of this work was the Time To Completion project, which focused on uncovering barriers to timely degree completion and recommending strategies for accelerating student progress. Before coming to JFF, he taught English in Japan to middle school, high school, and adult students as part of the Japanese Exchange and Teaching program.

Mr. 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.