meet our team.

staff

Melissa Wu

Chief Executive Officer & Board Member

Ross Anderson

Chief Program Officer

Gianna Bruno

Managing Director, External Affairs and EP Alumna

Andrea Cioffi

Chief of Staff and Operations

Emily Msall

Chief of Strategy

Alex Garcia

Manager, Talent Acquisition (Impact Fellowship)

Haley Mathews-Rosenberger

Manager, External Affairs, EP Alumna

Brianne Stuard

Managing Director, Fellow Impact

BOARD

Hanseul Kang

Former Assistant Dean & Executive Director of The Broad Center at Yale School of Management

Recy Benjamin Dunn

Former CEO, Ascend Public Charter Schools

Melissa Wu

Alyssa Morton

CEO and Partner at Empower Schools, EP Alumna

Idrissa Simmonds-Nastili

Chief of Network Effect, Pahara Institute, EP Alumna

Ash Solar

Partner, Bay Ed Fund, EP Alumnus

Alumni

Nicholas Depree

Former Director of Finance, ParentSquare, 2012 EP Fellow

Natasha Telesford Williams

Chief Financial Officer, The City Fund, 2008 EP Fellow

Ross Knorr

Director of Financial Planning and Analysis, YES Prep Public Schools, 2015 EP Fellow

Desmond Patt

Chief Strategy Officer / Schwartz University Professor, University of Pennsylvania, 2006 EP Fellow

Sarah Martin

Former Senior Advisor for Recovery, Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE), 2015 EP Fellow

Ijeoma Anyanwu

Deputy Chief, Data and Strategy at DC Public Schools, 2014 EP Fellow

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