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Frances Messano Highlight
It’s a journey and where you think you’re going is not necessarily where you end up.
About Frances
- I went to Harvard University and studied economics, which was the closest major to business that the college offered.
- Every summer throughout college, I interned on Wall Street.
- After graduating, I accepted an analyst role with Morgan Stanley—however, after working there for three years, I realized that it wasn’t my passion and that I needed to do some more exploring.
- I decided to go to Harvard Business School.
- After grad school, I decided to go into consulting because I was very interested in marketing strategy.
- I started working on projects related to education and realized that I really loved education work, so I declared my focus in education.
- After working in education consulting for five years, I found a job with Teach For America.
- I then joined NewSchools Venture Fund as Chief of Staff and have since worked my way up to CEO.