Yana Chernyak is the director of foundation relations at State Policy Network. In this role, she works with SPN’s foundation supporters to increase liberty and opportunity across the country and heads up a team that communicates the impact of these investments back to our supporters.
Prior to joining SPN, Yana worked on the fundraising teams at the American Enterprise Institute and the Institute for Humane Studies, working closely with scholars and program staff to develop new projects and match them to donor interests.
Before she worked in development, Yana spent several years working in programmatic capacities: running programs for graduate students, curating discussion-based programming for CEOs and other industry leaders, and working in health care consulting. Yana holds an MA in economics from George Mason University and a BA in political theory and French from Frankling and Marshall college. She lives in Northern Virginia with her family.