As senior program associate, Marilyn Crane is responsible for managing HED's Technical and Advisory Services Program and programs in North Africa, the Middle East, sub-Saharan and Eastern Africa, and Haiti.

Among other programs, Ms. Crane is responsible for the U.S.-Middle East University Partnerships program, the U.S.-Haiti Higher Education Partnership Program, the Civic Education Partnership Initiative, the HEPAD: East Africa long-term training initiative, and the U.S. - Japan Trilateral Program for Basic Education in Africa.

Before coming to HED, Ms. Crane worked at the International Women’s Forum, where she was associate director of programs, and the Aspen Institute's International Peace, Security, & Prosperity Program.

Ms. Crane earned her bachelor’s degree in international studies, with a correlate in French, from Vassar College and studied overseas at L'Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris. She is fluent in French and speaks basic Spanish and Arabic.