Ramin Taheri is the director of advocacy and policy at Chiefs for Change. Prior to joining CFC, Ramin served as director of policy and partnerships in the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Education in Washington, DC, where he worked on policy issues and strategic initiatives related to charter-district collaboration, school choice, resource equity, and postsecondary and workforce development. Before that, Ramin was a senior policy advisor in the Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development at the U.S. Department of Education.