Education in Brazil: The Challenges to Excellence and Equity
A Presentation and Conversation with Denis Mizne, Executive Director of the
Lemann Foundation, a leading non-profit education organization in Brazil
Thursday, February 6, at 6:30 pm
Gutman Conference Center A1, Harvard Graduate School of Education
The Lemann Foundation is an organization created by Jorge Paulo Lemann to
improve the quality of public education in Brazil. Before joining the
Foundation, Denis Mizne founded and led Instituto Sou da Paz, one of the
best known Brazilian NGOs focused on crime prevention. Mizne has a law
degree from the University of Sao Paulo, was a visiting scholar at Columbia
University Center for the Study on Human Rights and a 2007 Yale World
Fellow. He has received numerous awards recognizing his contributions to
Brazilian civil society.