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The Fund Team
We are experts in education policy, organizational systems, nonprofit management, school leadership, teaching, and more, all dedicated to equity, integrity, and excellence. We are always learning — from educators, from data, and from one another.
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Chelsea Angwenyi
Associate, Data & Reports
"Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation."
– Robert H. Schuller
Heather Y. Anichini
Chief Executive Officer
“The classroom remains the most radical space of possibility . . .”
– bell hooks
TaNiya Bellamy
Associate, Innovation & Program
Cheyane Bligen
Manager, Policy
"Education is freedom."
– Paulo Freire
Jennifer Cervantes
Senior Manager, Innovation & Program
“The function of freedom is to free someone else.”
– Toni Morrison
Eytan Cohen
Senior Associate, Development
"Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness."
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca
E.J. Dubinsky
Senior Manager, Innovation & Program
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
– Nelson Mandela
Annie Filer
Director, Innovation & Data
“A goal without a plan is just a wish.”
– Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Nelson Gerew
Chief, Internal & Public Affairs
Leah Grynheim
Associate, Innovation & Program
"Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."
– Unknown
Senior Associate, Strategy Team
"Be the change you wish to see in the world"
– Gandhi
Mariel Laureano
Chief, Innovation & Continuous Improvement
"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."
– Søren Kierkegaard
Esther Lee
Director, Finance & Operations
"We cannot have government for all the people until we first make certain it is government of and by all the people."
– Lyndon B. Johnson
Chris LeSuer
Senior Manager, Policy & Reports
“Live not for the battles won. Live not for the-end-of-the-song. Live in the along.”
– Gwendolyn Brooks
Christina McCabe
Associate, People & Operations
Shawnae Montagueo
Education Pioneer
“Deserve your dream.”
– Octavio Paz
Patricia Mota
Senior Manager, Innovation & Program
“The educator has the duty of not being neutral.”
– Paulo Freire
Savannah Payne
Senior Associate, Innovation & Data
Melanie Ramos
Manager, Finance
Brooke Rayford
Senior Manager, Communications
“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
― Zora Neale Hurston
Yaslin Ruiz
Senior Manager, People
“I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there - that is living.”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky
Senior Associate, Operations
Senior Manager, Development
“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character — that is the goal of true education”.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Barry Tyler Jr.
Director, Policy & Communications
“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.”
– Mary Engelbreit
Ashton Yurk
Senior Associate, Innovation & Data