Wana Duhart is the Founder and CEO of Trahud Enterprises, www.trahud.com. She is the author of the book entitled, A Call to the Village: Retooling Public Schools and publishes her own blog, The VillageSpace. Wana has spent almost three decades working in varying capacities across all sectors as a strategist, consultant, business manager, chief financial officer, and Certified Public Accountant.
She holds a BBA in Accounting from Southern Methodist University, MBA in Strategic Planning and Finance from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and a Master of Divinity from The Divinity School at Harvard University.
Wana Duhart is the Founder and CEO of Trahud Enterprises, a collaboration of her professional interests where the primary focus is to create strategic partnerships across the nonprofit, private, public, and religious sectors as a means toward transforming the delivery and efficacy of K-12 public schooling. She is the author of the book entitled, A Call to the Village: Retooling Public Schools, publishes her own blog, The VillageSpace, and serves as a freelance writer, commentator, and speaker.
Wana is also a Certified Public Accountant who has almost three decades of professional experiences which extend across sectors. These include serving as a strategist, consultant, business manager, chief financial officer, and accounting manager for entities ranging from a charter school management company, independent K-12 schools, a multinational financial institution, a Big 4 public accounting firm, private corporations, and a public university.
She holds a BBA in Accounting with Honors from Southern Methodist University, MBA in Strategic Planning and Finance from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and a Master of Divinity from The Divinity School at Harvard University.
For additional information pertaining to her work, please visit her website at www.trahud.com or contact her publicist at publicist@trahud.com.
Wana Duhart was born in Little Rock, Arkansas where she attended the Little Rock public schools and graduated with Honors from Little Rock Central High School. She earned her Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting with Honors from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. Upon graduation from SMU, she accepted a position as a staff auditor in the Dallas office of Arthur Young which was later merged with Ernst & Whinney to form the current Ernst & Young international accounting firm.
After working as an auditor in public accounting and earning the distinction as a Certified Public Accountant, Wana left to pursue her MBA at The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Subsequent to earning her Master of Business Administration in Finance and Strategic Planning, she worked as an Assistant Vice President for Citicorp Investment Services in New York, New York. She resigned from Citicorp to attend The Divinity School at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Wana became a licensed minister at Grace Baptist Church in Mount Vernon, New York prior to her enrollment in Divinity School and served at The Eliot Congregational Church in Roxbury, Massachusetts, during her time as a seminary student. Pursuant to earning a Master of Divinity from Harvard, she produced a thesis which focused on the utilization of cross-sectoral collaboration as a means for responding to economic and social needs and strengthening communities through partnerships across the nonprofit, private, public, and religious sectors.
This thesis provided the framework for the launch of Trahud Enterprises, her entrepreneurial venture that is based on the establishment of greater innovation, creativity, and flexibility in public schooling. Trahud Enterprises has evolved into a collaboration of her professional interests and ideas where the primary focus continues to be the creation of strategic partnerships across the nonprofit, private, public, and religious sectors as a means toward transforming the delivery and efficacy of K-12 public schools.
Her professional career consists of almost three decades of work across sectors. She has served as a strategist, consultant, business manager, chief financial officer, and accounting manager for entities ranging from a charter school management company, independent K-12 schools, a multinational financial institution, a Big 4 public accounting firm, private corporations, and a public university.
Wana publishes her own blog, The VillageSpace and is the author of the book entitled, A Call to the Village: Retooling Public Schools which is essentially a roadmap for developing collaborative strategies that integrate the knowledge, ideas, expertise, and resources of the nonprofit, private, public, and religious sectors in the transformation of elementary and secondary schools. She complements her work as CEO of Trahud Enterprises with media appearances, lectures, teaching, writing, and speaking engagements.
For additional information pertaining to her work, please visit her website at www.trahud.com or contact her publicist at publicist@trahud.com.
