Dan has worked in the nonprofit sector for several years, focusing on community economic development, social entrepreneurship, and philanthropy. Most recently, Dan worked on the Development and Donor Services team at the Boston Foundation, where he engaged startups and the innovation economy in philanthropy and supported an LGBTQ-advised fund. In graduate school, he was selected as an Eli J. and Phyllis N. Segal Citizen Leadership Fellow and interned at Boston LISC to focus on Transit-Oriented Development and various projects with Community Development Corporations. He moved to Boston to serve as an AmeriCorps VISTA and VISTA Leader, and later managed an AmeriCorps State program. Dan holds an MBA and MPP from the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University and a BA from SUNY Geneseo.