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Yifan Chen
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Senior Associate, Impact Investments
- ychen@socialfinance.org
- Boston
Yifan is an Senior Associate, Impact Investments at Social Finance based in the Boston office.
Before joining Social Finance, Yifan was an Analyst Consultant at Education Resource Strategies (ERS), a nonprofit that partners with K-12 urban districts to make resource shifts and system-level changes to achieve better outcomes for students. While at ERS, she was responsible for generating hypotheses, analyzing district-level data, and researching state and local context to support her team in designing equitable and data-driven decisions for school districts across the US.
Yifan graduated from Harvard University with a B.A. in Sociology and a minor in Economics.
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