Daniel Cowen

New & Evolving Academic Leaders Program

Co-manager, Leading Social Justice Collective, In Nova Consulting Inc.

At In Nova, Daniel co-manages the Leading Social Justice Collective (LSJC) and co-leads the education practice. As co-manager of LSJC, Daniel contributes to the overall strategy of the program, and is tasked with his co-workers to bring the program to life through creating recruitment materials, identifying and securing speakers and arranging other program supports, among other contributions. Daniel also helps manage the Build from Within Alliance, a national network of community development organizations supporting local entrepreneurship in neighborhoods across the United States.

Before joining In Nova, Daniel spent four years advancing equity, diversity and inclusion both within organizations and in a broader systemic way at CenterState CEO. As the Deputy Director of Economic Inclusion for the largest regional chamber of commerce in New York, he designed and implemented initiatives that helped the organization’s business membership identify and act on opportunities and barriers to creating a more diverse and inclusive culture. In this role he launched and directed a business development program supporting intergenerational wealth generation in low-income neighbourhoods.