Kendal Stewart
- MPA, Development Practice, Columbia University
- BA, Davidson College
Kendal is supporting the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to drive equitable outcomes for students through improvements in student assessment and school accountability.
Kendal started her career in El Salvador with Habitat for Humanity, where she raised more than $12.5 million to fund the construction of affordable housing and facilitated internal capacity building to plan and implement large community development projects. More recently, she oversaw partnerships and applied learning for the MPA in Development Practice program at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. Notably, she contributed to published research on government innovation in New York City and developed the program's first diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) multi-year strategic plan in collaboration with students, alumni and faculty. Kendal serves on the board of directors of the non-profit organization Seeds of Learning, which runs small libraries in Nicaragua that receive 99,000 annual user visits.