Daniel Stid is the Executive Director of Lyceum Labs, a nonprofit focused on improving the quality of political leadership at the local and state levels of government. For the 2023-24 academic year, he is a visiting fellow at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University. He also advises philanthropists seeking to strengthen democracy, pluralism, and civic life.
From 2013 to 2022, Daniel served as the inaugural director of the Hewlett Foundation’s U.S. Democracy Program. During his tenure, he led $180 million in grantmaking to 150+ grantees working across the ideological spectrum to shore up U.S. democracy in a time of worsening polarization. Earlier in his career, Daniel was a partner with The Bridgespan Group, a management consultant at BCG, a Congressional Fellow on the staff of the House Majority Leader, and an assistant professor of political science at Wabash College. Daniel is the author of The President as Statesman: Woodrow Wilson and the Constitution. He blogs at The Art of Association on the interplay between philanthropy, civil society, and democracy in America.
Daniel has a B.A. from Hope College, an M.Phil. in politics from Oxford University, and a Ph.D. in government from Harvard University. A Michigander at heart, Daniel grew up on a third-generation family farm in Ingham County. He is proud to have been commissioned an honorary Kentucky Colonel for his service to the Commonwealth.
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