Victoria Burnham is the Executive Coordinator for the Growth Lab at Harvard's Center for International Development. In this role she works alongside the senior team assisting the Growth Lab Director, Professor Ricardo Hausmann, and serves as a direct liaison to lab faculty, staff, fellows, students, and important external contacts. 

Prior to the Growth Lab, Victoria worked as a Project Coordinator for the Technology and Public Purpose Project (TAPP) within Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, where she supported the fellowship for technologists, investors, and policymakers to explore avenues for reducing societal harms and protecting public purpose values. Before Harvard, Victoria served as a Special Assistant to the Commissioner of the Social Security Administration in Washington, DC. Victoria has also worked on numerous political campaigns, including presidential, state, and local campaigns. 

She received her bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Brigham Young University-Idaho, and a master’s in International Relations of the Middle East from Durham University in the United Kingdom. Her master’s thesis focused on female jihad and included a comparative analysis of different causes of western women and MENA women joining the Islamic State