About Us

Team Advisory Board Senior Fellows Funders

Mission

FutureEd is an independent, solution-oriented think tank at Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public Policy. We are committed to bringing fresh energy to the causes of excellence, equity, and efficiency in K-12 and higher education on behalf of the nation's underserved students. As a nonpartisan, public-facing organization, we work to produce clear, compelling analysis on key education issues for policymakers, practitioners, the media, and other key education change agents and influencers at the federal, state, and local levels—promoting smart policymaking in a complex and fast-changing educational landscape.

Team

Thomas Toch

Director

Phyllis W. Jordan

Associate Director

Bella DiMarco

Policy Analyst

Benito Aranda-Comer

Research Associate

Andrew Edghill

Communications Associate

Nathalie Kirsch

Research Associate

Matthew A. Kraft

Research Director

Noa Neubia

Communications Associate

J. Gordon Wright

Communications Consultant

Tricia Waller

Finance Manager

Advisory Board

Thomas S. Dee

Stanford University Graduate School of Education

Stella Flores

New York University

Emma García

Economic Policy Institute

Nora Gordon

Georgetown University

Brian Gill

Mathematica Policy Research, Mid-Atlantic REL

Laura Hamilton

Associate Vice President, Research Centers, ETS

Douglas Harris

Tulane University

Andrew Ho

Harvard Graduate School of Education

Kirabo Jackson

Northwestern University

Rob Reich

Stanford University

Martin West

Harvard Graduate School of Education

Sabrina Wesley-Nero

Director, Program in Education, Inquiry, and Justice, Georgetown

David S. Yeager

University of Texas at Austin

Senior Fellows

Alyssa Haywoode

Josh Anderson

Senior Fellow

Norman Atkins

Together Education

RiShawn Biddle

Editor, Dropout Nation

Tequilla Brownie

TNTP, CEO

Andrew Buher

Opportunity Labs

Nadya Chinoy Dabby

Education Consultant

Amanda Fernandez

Latinos for Education

Michael Goldstein

Senior Fellow

Marc Porter Magee

Founder and CEO, 50CAN

Lynn Olson

Former deputy director, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Morgan Polikoff

USC Rossier School of Education

Mario Ramirez

Opportunity Labs

Greg Richmond

Superintendent, Archdiocese of Chicago Catholic Schools

Andreas Schleicher

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

Jeffrey J. Selingo

Arizona State University, Georgia Institute for Technology

Alina Tugend

Senior Fellow

Peg Tyre

Edwin Gould Foundation

Debbie Veney

National Alliance for Public Charter Schools

Joanne Weiss

Weiss Associates LLC

Bob Wise

Former President of Alliance for Excellent Education

Funders

FutureEd is an independent, foundation-funded organization. We are grateful to the following foundations for supporting our work.

Barr Foundation

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Bloomberg Philanthropies

Carnegie Corporation of New York

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

The City Fund

Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

Finnegan Family Foundation

Joyce Foundation

Michael L. and Rosalind C. Keiser Charitable Trust

Mansueto Foundation

Walton Family Foundation