Huilan Krenn

Huilan Y. Krenn is the director of Learning & Impact at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation in Battle Creek, Michigan. In this role, she supports foundation efforts to promote thriving children, working families and equitable communities.

Krenn is responsible for leading and managing evaluation system building and activities in support of all WKKF programming areas. She works closely with WKKF program leadership in measuring and understanding the outcomes and impact of programming strategies and investments. She also partners with foundation program staff, grantees, external evaluators, data partners and other evaluation stakeholders to deliver high quality, evidence-based monitoring, evaluation and capturing of “lessons learned” around WKKF programmatic work.

Krenn joined the Kellogg Foundation in 2002, holding positions of program officer for Education & Learning and evaluation manager. She was also member of the former innovation and design team, creating a research and design platform for emerging bodies of work by helping to explore, prototype and assess issues and opportunities that could improve the impact of grantee partners and the foundation’s own philanthropic practice.

Krenn received both her doctoral degree in evaluation, research and measurement, and her master’s degree in educational leadership from Western Michigan University. She also holds a master’s degree in teaching English as a second language and a bachelor’s degree in English and American language and literature from Nankai University in China.