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.