In 2002, Zurlo founded Worldfund, a non-profit dedicated to improving education quality in Latin America, after a nine-year career as a securities analyst on Wall Street with Credit Suisse and Goldman Sachs. She has an MBA in finance and accounting from Columbia Business School in NYC, a master’s in international affairs from Johns Hopkins University SAIS in Washington, D.C., and a bachelor’s in history from Dartmouth College in Hannover, N.H.