Daniel Stid

Daniel is the Executive Director of Lyceum Labs, a new charitable venture dedicated to improving the quality of political leadership and party politics in the United States. Lyceum Labs is a fiscally sponsored project of the Defending Democracy Together Institute, a 501(c)3 entity based in Washington, DC.

Daniel recently completed a fixed-term appointment as the founding director of the U.S. Democracy Program at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. From 2013 to 2022, Daniel oversaw $180 million in grant making to shore up U.S. democracy in a time of worsening polarization, with a particular emphasis on strengthening national governing institutions and supporting trustworthy elections. He also led the Foundation’s participation in the New Pluralists Collaborative.

From 2006-2013, Daniel was a partner in the San Francisco office of The Bridgespan Group, a nonprofit consultancy, where he helped coordinate the organization’s work with federal, state, and local government agencies and advised nonprofit and foundation clients supporting children, youth, and families. Earlier, at the Boston Consulting Group, he advised private sector and government clients in the U.S. and Southeast Asia. Daniel began his career teaching political science at Wabash College. He served as a Congressional Fellow on the staff of the House Majority Leader and is the author of The President as Statesman: Woodrow Wilson and the Constitution.

A graduate of Hope College, Daniel holds an MPhil in politics from Oxford University and a doctorate in government from Harvard University. Daniel is also proud to have been commissioned an honorary Kentucky Colonel for his service to the Commonwealth.

Daniel is a member of the board of directors at Mount Tamalpais College (formerly the Prison University Project at San Quentin) and More in Common-US. Previously, he served as the founding board chair of New Community Church in Menlo Park, California.

Daniel is married to Martha Enthoven, and they are the proud parents of twins Noah and Sophia (age 30), Charlotte (23) and Isabelle (19).

Daniel can be reached via email at daniel.stid@gmail.com and via phone at (415) 321-9859.