Ezza Naveed

About Ezza Naveed

Building a world where someone’s birth circumstances don’t dictate their access to opportunity. I do this through my learning experience design expertise & deep passion for up-skilling youth.(Opinions my own!)Some career highlights:* I am HalfTheStory\'s first learning design hire & partnership lead; my work directly helps thousands of students across the United States in developing healthier relationships with screens & technology.* I am Britebound\'s (prev. American Student Assistance) inaugural Segall Innovation Fellow: I am closing the gap of 10M+ opportunity youth in the U.S. by building a social impact incubator for high school students.* I co-taught with Michael Horn, co-founder of the Christensen Institute, for his class \"Innovation for Lifelong Learning\" at Harvard GSE.* I oversaw and improved a 1/4 million $ seed grant program at Harvard University (the Culture Lab Innovation Fund) to equip Harvard community members to design for social impact.* I built the \"Young Leader\'s Program\" at Urraan in October 2022, a boot camp through which we helped 800+ low-income students land their first role in tech.* As the 13th hire at Goldfinch Finance (funded by a16z), I was the Community Project Lead. I managed a community of liquidity providers/investors through Discord & Twitter to fund unbanked ventures in the Global South.* I was the first hire at Devsisters outside Asia. As a sophomore, I hired 7 freshman interns to market Devsisters in the United States — we reached 5K at our most-attended event.*I am the third batch of Minerva University, the world\'s most innovative undergrad with a 1.9% acceptance rate, with a B.Sc. in Cognition, Brain & Behavior and a BA in Philosophy, Ethics, and Law. I lived & worked in San Francisco, Seoul, Berlin, Buenos Aires, and London.* In a team of one, I drove miles+ in 3 weeks for Minerva University\'s Outreach Campaign 2023, a project I managed, scoped, designed, detailed, and executed. I traveled by road from KPK to Karachi, pitching Minerva in person across four provinces and 35+ schools students) in 40 workshops. Year/year change in applications was +25%.* At Harvard, I am the founder of the Women\'s Education Movement student organization at Harvard GSE and a fellow at the esteemed Harvard to Oval Office Program (a highly selective leadership development program for female leaders) offered at the Harvard Kennedy School. I also manage communications & community for HGSE Innovations & Ventures in the Education Club.

Experience

1. School Partnership Lead

   Halfthestory

   Sep 2025 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US

   Build and grow school partnerships to scale digital wellbeing programs nationwide across schools, districts, non-profits, and aligned organizations.

Education

• University of Pennsylvania

  Global Social Impact House Fellow, Center for Social Impact & Stratefy

  2024 — 2024

• Hanyang University

  Exchange Program

  2018 — 2018

• Harvard University

  Master of Education - MEd, Learning Design, Innovation, and Technology

• Harvard Graduate School of Education

  M.Ed., Learning Design, Innovation, and Technology

• Minerva University

  Bachelor of Science - BS, Social Sciences (Cognition, Brain, and Behaviour) | B.A. in Philosophy, Ethics, and the Law