Chris's involvement with LE began in 2002, after he graduated from Georgetown. Adam Tolnay offered Chris what could be the world's greatest post-college employment offer: spend four months teaching English in Komarno, Slovakia with Christina Fleming, followed by four months setting up the LE Croatia program. Being chained to a desk had little appeal, so Chris accepted the offer immediately. After a year in Europe Chris returned to the US and worked as the Managing Director of Learning Enterprises. Under his tenure LE expanded its number of programs, volunteers, and countries. Upon leaving Chris created and staffed the organization structure for the much larger LE that exists today.

After three years in LA working as a consultant for Monitor (where the desk chain was quite short), Chris is now a student at Harvard Business School. He stays engaged with LE's board of directors, and he looks forward to being involved for many more years to come!

Maureen has been involved with LE since 2003, when she spent the most rewarding summer of her life volunteering in the tiny pueblo of Juan Aldama, in Sinaloa, Mexico. Since then, working for Learning Enterprises has been a staple part of her life. Maureen took over the Mexico program in 2004, returning to Sinaloa with a volunteer team that tripled the size and impact of the program. After a year abroad studying Latin American Literature in Milan, Italy, Maureen was offered the opportunity to direct all of the LE programming efforts. With the help of her fantastic Executive Partners and Staff, Maureen spearheaded a successful 2006 programming year, which included the founding of pilots in Mauritius, Poland, Lithuania, the Philippines, and Siberia.

Maureen was honored to be nominated to the LE Board of Directors. She is currently a PhD candidate and Teaching Fellow at Georgetown University, where she studies Language Teaching Methodology and works towards a degree in Spanish Language Literature and Culture. 

 

Niko Canner is a founder and Managing Partner of Katzenbach Partners LLC, a consulting firm focused on helping clients achieve breakthrough organizational performance. He has led Katzenbach Partners through growth of more than 25% per year over the past five years. Niko has advised leading companies in many industries, with a particular focus on how companies can achieve outcomes that are unprecedented in their industries. He has worked extensively in healthcare, professional and financial services, telecommunications and technology, and in the social sector.

Niko is a founding board member of both Learning Enterprises and of the Reciprocity Foundation, a non-profit that helps creatively talented homeless youth prepare to work in design and the arts. He also serves on the Advisory Council of the Acumen Fund. He initiated and co-leads China 2024, a twenty-year longitudinal study of the development of business leaders in China.

Niko earned an A.B. in economics, summa cum laude, from Harvard College and completed graduate work at Oxford University on a Marshall Scholarship.

Deepti is currently the Talent Manager at Acumen Fund, a non-profit venture fund investing in housing, health, water, and energy solutions in S. Asia and E. Africa. Prior to joining Acumen Fund, Deepti Doshi worked at Katzenbach Partners LLC, a management consulting firm that focuses on strategic problem solving to improve organizational performance, and at Marshall Goldsmith Partners LLC, a leadership development firm that delivers executive coaching as well as other leadership development services to their global clients. She has also spent time working on various programs at an orphanage in India that serves victims of the 2001 earthquake in Gujarat.

Deepti graduated from a dual degree program at the University of Pennsylvania with a BS in Economics (The Wharton School) and a BA in Psychology (The College of Arts and Sciences).

As an immigrant to the United States, Adam Tolnay experienced firsthand the primary importance of the English language as a tool for social and economic inclusion. Years later, upon returning to his native lands in the east of Europe, he witnessed the linguistic apartheid that was arising in countries such as Hungary where children in villages had no teachers of Western languages. Deciding to do something to help reduce the exclusion village children faced, Adam brought five of his fellow Harvard undergraduates to teach English in villages in Hungary in 1992. Sixteen summers later, Adam is amazed, happy, proud, and truly thankful to all the amazing people, volunteers, host families, executive staff, members of the board of directors who have allowed Learning Enterprises to grow from this tiny seed.

The success of Learning Enterprises propelled Adam to found a number of ventures focused on education, including The Learning Foundation India, Y-Fi (Youth Finance), PANANGO. In order to be able to keep taking off to far corners of the world during summers, Adam has chosen to remain in academia. Adam holds an A.B. magna cum laude in Government from Harvard College, an M.Sc. in Politics and History of Russia and Eastern Europe from the London School of Economics where he was a Knox Scholar and recipient of the American Friends of the LSE Scholarship, an A.M. in Regional Studies East Asia from Harvard College where he was a Korea Foundation Scholar, and is completing his Ph.D. in Government at Georgetown University. A former consultant with McKinsey & Company and a Reuters Digital Visions Fellow 2006-7, Adam is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Persuasive Technology Lab at Stanford University where he works on questions of how to use social networks, mobile phones, and games for social entrepreneurship in the realm of peace, democracy and development.

Megan Hansen's service with Learning Enterprises has spanned all levels, from volunteer to manager. Megan started her LE adventure as a 2005 volunteer in Topolobampo, Mexico and could not help but return to teach again in the summer of 2006. After working as Stanford Campus Director and Director of Programming, Megan took on the role of Managing Director in 2007 where she continued to strengthen LE's organizational foundation and volunteer impact.

Megan graduated from Stanford University in 2008 with a B.S. in Atmosphere/Energy Engineering, and is currently a masters student in Management Science & Engineering at Stanford. She is passionate about renewable energy and development and has lived abroad in Chile, Mexico, and Brazil. When not consumed with schoolwork or looking for a job, she enjoys rock climbing, reading, and trying to cook new foods.