Who We Are

We’re a diverse network of education and social justice field leaders from over 100 organizations and 17 foundations.

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In 2012, at a meeting of the Education Funders Strategy Group an inquiry was made:

Were other funders thinking about how a different set of guiding values might lead to a different set of educational policies that would help grow and support “New Models” of learning? How can funders show up in different education spaces, wanting to honoring different contexts and communities. How can we be real about the ways the system needs to update and change?

Conversation led to clarity: The dominant narrative about education was flawed and we needed a better way to articulate a powerful vision for the future of learning. We needed more power in the field to overcome the siloed nature of 1,000 different efforts. We needed an affirmative vision to bring people together.

Movement Strategy Center supported development of a long-term strategy to build field alignment among organizations and like-minded efforts with shared values and a common agenda. The core proposition was that field and funders need to pivot and partner shoulder-to-shoulder, informed by the RE-AMP network model to fundamentally change how people relate to and strategize with each other through the practice of partnership. How we move together is as critical to who we are as what we’re moving towards.

The Partnership for the Future of Learning (the Partnership) is now composed of 17 foundations and more than 80 networks, organizations, districts, and institutions. Our network exists exists to protect and strengthen public education for more meaningful and equitable future of learning for all.

The National Public Education Support Fund (NPESF) is the organizational and fiduciary home to the Partnership for the Future of Learning. NPESF is a hub for convening and connecting influential leaders in education philanthropy, advocacy, research, policy, and practice.

Partnership Ambassadors

The following partners are spokespeople, scholars, influencers, and storytellers who you can request for public-facing opportunities such as media inquiries, interviews, speeches, panels, and written pieces.

Evelyn Aissa

Executive Director Reaching Higher New Hampshire BIO

Cassandra Baptiste

Instructional Coach NYC Department of Education BIO

Saa’un Bell

Strategy Director Californians for Justice BIO

Keith Catone

Executive Director Center for Youth & Community Leadership in Education BIO

Sam Chaltain

Chief Storyteller 180 Studio BIO

Sunanna Chand

Director Remake Learning BIO

Julia Daniel

Graduate Student Researcher National Education Policy Center BIO

Marshé Eunique Doss

Recent graduate from Dorsey High School, Los Angeles Organizer, Students Deserve BIO

Roberta Furger

Senior Writer | Director of Storytelling Learning Policy Institute BIO

Paloma Garcia

Director of Communications NYU Metro Center BIO

Neha Singh Gohil

Communications Officer in Education William and Flora Hewlett Foundation BIO

Richard Gray

Deputy Director of Community Organizing NYU Metro Center BIO

Preston Green III

Professor of Educational Leadership and Law University of Connecticut BIO

Jacqueline “Jay Cali” Jackson

Doctoral Student, Howard University Former NYC DOE Special Education Instructor BIO

Angelica Jongco

Senior Staff Attorney Public Advocates BIO

Sanaa Kahloon

Student & Journalism Fellow Alumnus Student Voice BIO

Anna Maier

Research Analyst and Policy Advisor Learning Policy Institute BIO

Jillian McRae

English Teacher (specializing in Sociology, race, class, & gender) / Instructional Coach Ossining High School BIO

Scott Nine

Deputy Director for Strategy and Program National Public Education Support Fund BIO

Sam North

Teacher Ossining High School BIO

Rosalie Reyes

Coordinator of Teacher Engagement and Professional Development Teaching for Change BIO

Chris Saldaña

Doctoral Student Researcher University of Colorado - Boulder School of Education & National Education Policy Center BIO

Kyle Serrette

Senior Policy Analyst National Education Association BIO

Kevin Welner

Professor of Education, University of Colorado - Boulder School of Education Director, National Education Policy Center BIO

Tonya Winters-Buford

Family Engagement Liaison & Parent DeKalb County School District BIO

Carolyn Wood

Board President / Advocacy and Legislative Services Public Education Matters GA BIO

Natalie M. Zwerger

Director NYU Center for Strategic Solutions BIO

Media Inquiries

Please tell us more about your request, including which ambassador/s that best fit the inquiry.

Funders

2018 Steering Committee Partners

2019 Steering Committee forthcoming

Shaun Adamec, Adamec Communications
Evelyn Aissa, Reaching Higher New Hampshire
Gregg Behr, Grable Foundation
Daaiyah Bilal-Threats, NEA
Renee Blahuta, W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Allison Brown, Communities for Just Schools Fund
Linda Darling-Hammond, Learning Policy Institute
Nick Donohue, Nellie Mae Education Foundation
Roberta Furger, Learning Policy Institute
Dmitri Holtzman, Center for Popular Democracy
Kent McGuire, Hewlett Foundation
Sanjiv Rao, Ford Foundation
David Rattray, Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce
Kwesi Rollins, Institute for Educational Leadership
Terri Shuck, National Public Education Support Fund
Warren Simmons, National Education Policy Center
Gloria Totten, Public Leadership Institute

A Snapshot of the Partnership

Below are partners who opted in to being listed on our website. We’re growing and gathering even as you read this.

Albert Sykes and Dana Bennis, IDEA: Institute for Democratic Education in America
Deborah J. Menkart and Rosalie Reyes, Teaching for Change
Liz Leberman, New Profit
Nicholas C. Donohue, Nellie Mae Education Foundation
Charlie Toulmin, Nellie Mae Education Foundation
Monica Snellings and Kelly Young, Education Reimagined
Pam Moran, Virginia School Consortium for Learning
Sunanna Chand, Remake Learning
Renee Blahuta, Program Officer, W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Gloria Totten, Public Leadership Institute
Evelyn Aissa, Reaching Higher NH
Janet Kishbaugh and Carolyn Wood, Georgia Coalition for Public Education; Public Education Matters Georgia
Roberta Furger, Amber Hu, Barbara McKenna, and Sara Robertson, Learning Policy Institute
David Rattray, LA Chamber / UNITE-LA
Gene Wilhoit, Center for Innovation in Education
Deborah S. Delisle and Jason Amos, Alliance for Excellent Education
Keith Catone, Center for Youth & Community Leadership in Education (CYCLE)
Dr. Paul Rogers, Ashoka
Eric Braxton, Funders’ Collaborative on Youth Organizing
Scott Hartl, EL Education
Karen DeMoss, Prepared To Teach, Bank Street College
Jonas Barriere , UnifiEd
Zakiya Sankara-Jabar, Dignity in Schools Campaign
Marla Ucelli-Kashyap, AFT
Susan Zeig, Producer, Community Concern Films//Chair, Dept of Communications and Film, LIU Post
Shelly Masur, CDE Foundation
John Affeldt, Angelica Jongco, Isabel Alegria, and Duc Luu, Public Advocates
Jaribu Lee and Jitu Brown, Journey for Justice Alliance
Warren Simmons, Kevin Welner, Michelle Renée Valladares, Matthew Garcia, National Education Policy Center, University of Colorado, Boulder
Jeff Bryant, Freelance Writer and Advocacy Journalist
Jo Anderson, Jr., Co-Executive Director, Consortium for Educational Change (CEC)
RE Katz, Illinois State Board of Education
Jon Snyder, Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education
Ellen Hume-Howard, New Hampshire Learning Initiative
Keron Blair, Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools
Chris Jackson, Big Picture Learning
S. Kwesi Rollins, Institute for Educational Leadership
José Muñoz, Coalition for Community Schools, Institute for Educational Leadership
Kyle Serrette and Daaiyah Bilal-Threats, National Education Association
Autumn Blanchard, Southern Education Foundation
Richard Gray and Paloma Garcia, NYU Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools
Dr. Robin D. Cooper, Just S’UNO, LLC
Saa’un Bell, Californians for Justice