Sydney Kopen Senior Business Analyst Sydney Kopen is a senior business analyst in Technology for the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, where she collaborates with key stakeholders within each program area to understand and support programmatic initiatives, drive technology strategy awareness, and implement technology standards across teams. Prior to joining the Kauffman Foundation, Kopen was a grants administration associate for the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, where she focused on the administrative and technological processes that occurred in all stages of the grantmaking process. Earlier, Kopen was a management information sciences (MIS) teaching assistant in the information and decision sciences department for the University of Minnesota Curtis L. Carlson School of Management. Kopen has a Bachelor of Science in management information systems and human resources and industrial relations from the University of Minnesota Curtis L. Carlson School of Management.