Alice Tan

Alice Tan, DREAM’s Chief of Staff, leads the execution of complex, organization-wide initiatives and projects in close partnership with leaders across the organization and oversees management of the executive office, ensuring that the co-CEOs’ time is consistently focused on the highest priority areas and planned strategically.

Ali’s career in education and youth development spans the nonprofit, public, and private sectors. She began her career as a high school English teacher and Director of Diversity at Deerfield Academy and served NYC middle school students and families as Assistant Director of the academic program and Director of Placement at Prep for Prep. Committed to advancing educational opportunity, equity, and systems-level change, Ali worked as a Senior Consultant in KPMG’s public and nonprofit sector advisory practice and grantmaker at a family foundation, where she first learned of Harlem RBI, now DREAM. At the NYC Department of Education/Fund for Public Schools and The New York Public Library, Ali led strategic initiatives, working with leadership and partner organizations to drive program development, fundraising, and communications for system-wide early childhood, after school, summer learning, and ESOL programs. Most recently, Ali served as Chief of Staff at Children’s Aid, where she served as key advisor to the CEO, providing leadership on mission-critical issues and initiatives, including organizational strategy, cross-functional activity, and board management, and co-chaired the Children’s Aid Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Advisory Council.

Ali earned her Bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania, and Master’s of Public Administration from Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs.