VANESSA E. BEARY

Generation Entrepreneurial

 

 

Dr. Vanessa E. Beary serves as the Senior Advisor on Youth Entrepreneurship at the U.S. Department of State in the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs.  She oversees the design and implementation of the Department's Resilient, Entrepreneurial, And Dynamic Youth (READY) Initiative.  READY teaches at-risk youth between the ages of 18 to 30 how to code, matches them with mentors, places them in a pre-arranged internship with a technology company, and prepares them for online employment upon completion of the program.

Prior to her work with the State Department, Vanessa received a Doctor of Education from Harvard University. During her time at Harvard she was a Harvard Presidential Scholar, Kauffman Dissertation Fellow, and Fulbright Fellow. She conducted her dissertation fieldwork in Khujand, Tajikistan.

This is not her first time working for the State Department: In 2008 Vanessa served on a Temporary Appointment as a Public Diplomacy Officer on the Wasit Provincial Reconstruction Team in Iraq and received the Outstanding Civilian Service Award from the U.S. Department of the Army for her work.

Vanessa holds a Doctor of Education from Harvard University, a Master of Education from Harvard University, a Master of Philosophy from the University of Cambridge, and a Bachelors of Arts with honors from Brown University.