Triana is the Research Manager at NAATE. Before joining NAATE, she worked for three years at the Young Women's Leadership Network, a high-performing network of all-girls public secondary schools in New York City. Before that she worked as the interventionist for the research conducted at the Bellevue Project for Early Language, Literacy and Education Success. She has been a member of the Leadership Council for the nonprofit Read Alliance since August 2012. In the summer of 2014 she completed the Harvard Graduate School of Education's Strategic Data Project Institute for Leadership in Analytics. Triana attended Cardinal Spellman High School in the Bronx. She holds a B.A. in Psychology and an M.P.A. in Public and Nonprofit Management and Policy from New York University.