Janai Raphael is the strategy officer for participation at Lumina Foundation, an independent, private foundation in Indianapolis committed to making opportunities for learning beyond high school available to all. Raphael, who is based in Atlanta, Ga., oversees a portfolio of work aimed at increasing enrollment and re-enrollment in bachelor’s degree programs.
She has years of professional experience helping students to and through college, beginning in 2016 as an advisor with the Georgia College Advising Corps. Since then, she has worked with multiple organizations, including the National College Attainment Network, the Southern Education Foundation, the United Negro College Fund, and the District of Columbia Public Schools.
Before joining Lumina, Raphael worked as Achieve Atlanta’s senior manager of scholarship and affordability, where she managed Georgia’s largest need-based aid program.
She earned a bachelor’s degree in biological sciences at the University of Georgia and a master’s in higher education at the University of Maryland, College Park.
