Ana Ventura-Molina

Senior Associate

Ana Ventura-Molina (she/her) joins ViaNova as a Senior Associate, bringing a decade of community-based education and youth development experience to the firm's philanthropic advisory work. She brings a participatory approach to engagement that centers the communities most proximate to the issue areas being addressed. Ana is committed to building relationships and centering community voice throughout the project and grantmaking process, advancing philanthropy rooted in equity and shared power.  

Prior to joining ViaNova, Ana served in senior leadership at a DC-based education nonprofit, growing from an AmeriCorps VISTA role into leading program management and school partnerships across DC public schools. Ana has contributed to the local and global youth-serving ecosystem as a bilingual Cohort Leader with LearnServe International and volunteer national public speaker with COAR.  Ana served as education volunteer with Peace Corps Mexico and later as staff at Peace Corps Headquarters, supporting the recruitment and placement pipeline connecting volunteers to service.  

Ana holds a M.Ed. in Education Policy and Leadership from American University, where she served as a Graduate Research Assistant researching a local school district's community schools initiative, and a B.A. in Government and Politics and Spanish Language, Literature, and Culture from the University of Maryland, College Park. She is also a certified practitioner in restorative justice and a Crisis Prevention Institute (CPI) certified instructor. Ana lives in Washington, D.C.