Victoria Vrana is the vice president, communications and assessment at Venture Philanthropy Partners, responsible for the organization's overall internal and external communications and assessment of VPP and its portfolio's performance. She joined VPP as as the chief knowledge officer in 2003. Since June 1999 she served as the director of interactive media for the Morino Institute, where she produced YouthLearn, an online community and resource website that emerged from the experience and learning of the institute's Youth Development Collaborative Pilot project. Before joining the institute, she was a senior account executive with Millennium Communications, a communication consulting firm serving nonprofits and foundations. Leading Millennium's new media work, Vrana's clients included the Rockefeller Foundation, Benton Foundation, Open Society Institute, and the Markle Foundation. Her interest in using the Internet for social change began at the Network of East-West Women were she directed the first online network linking women in post-Soviet countries. Vrana traveled in ten countries, installing modems and computers and conducting trainings on using the Internet for international networking and advocacy. She has held workshops and trainings at a variety of forums around the world including the United Nations Conference on Women in Beijing, China, Columbia University's Center for Religion, Human Rights and Religious Freedom, and Georgetown University's Women's Law and Public Policy Program. Vrana studied in Germany and Hungary and has a degree in comparative literature from the University of California at Davis.