Nina Kao, Program Operations Manager, is responsible for ensuring efficient and strategic collaboration across our core portfolios, developing and executing cross-portfolio grantmaking strategies, and managing key grantmaking projects.
Previously, Nina was a consultant at the Boston Consulting Group, where she supported clients across the public, private, and nonprofit sectors to develop strategic plans and enact organizational change. Prior to that, she worked as a Director at Compass Education Group, building test prep partnerships with local schools and leading tutor training and development.
Nina began her career as a high school music teacher with Teach for America’s Mississippi corps, where she developed a curriculum of world music lessons. She graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania and earned her M.B.A. at Columbia Business School. Nina is an avid fan of science fiction and women’s soccer and is an aspiring rock drummer.
Meet our team.
Overdeck Family Foundation’s team is composed of a dedicated group of individuals who share a passion for improving the future of education in the U.S. We are teachers, parents, academics, and data analysts who are driven by the desire to find and scale innovative, cost-effective, and evidence-based programs and solutions that will improve children’s lives for generations to come.