Danxi Shen is the Deputy CEO of Sany Foundation. Ms. Shen oversees the foundation’s grant-making, education programs, and global partnerships. She oversees the Early Childhood Development portfolio, which works with China’s leading non-profits and social enterprises on the topic to improve the brain and social-emotional development of underprivileged children in the country. 

Prior to Sany Foundation, Danxi worked at the intersection of education and social innovation through partnership development and program design at Harvard SEED for Social Innovation (now a registered fund at Shanghai Adream Foundation), a network for China’s next generation of social sector leaders. Before working full-time in the non-profit sector, Danxi conducted extensive research in education policy and innovation in both private business and academia. 

Danxi holds an Ed.M. from Harvard Graduate School of Education, and has studied international human rights and linguistics at Peking University, Waseda University, and Beijing Foreign Studies University. Ms. Shen is also founder of Dean D’Art, a volunteer organization that has brought drama and arts education to over 300 migrant children in Beijing. Ms. Shen was a Richard Rockefeller Fellow and currently sits on the board of Beijing Deqing Charitable Foundation.