Team

Allison Brumley

Operations Associate

Ashley Ranan

Digital Content Manager

Britney Milton

Administrative Coordinator

Jean Liu

Director of Strategy

Jessica Slusser

Vice President of Growth & Impact

Jordan Luster

Program Manager

Karen Vander Ark

CFO + Partner

Marissa Wicklund

Advocacy Manager

Mason Pashia

Creative Director

Nate McClennen

Vice President of Strategy + Innovation

Rebecca Midles

Vice President of Learning Design

Shawnee Caruthers

Vice President of Advocacy

Tom Vander Ark

CEO + Partner

Victoria Andrews

Director of Learning Design

Fellows

Trace Pickering

Senior Fellow

Abby Benedetto

Senior Fellow

Scott McLeod

Senior Fellow
Michelle Blanchet

Michelle Blanchet

Senior Fellow

Advisory Board

The Getting Smart Advisory Board is a group of respected partners, friends, colleagues and activists who are focused on ensuring equity and inclusion as it relates to learning design, learning science and educational leadership. This indispensable group of advisors helps us to keep the most important parts of the work at the center of what we do. 

Byron Sanders

Big Thought

Corey Scholes

Kauffman Foundation

Edgar Palacios

Latinx Education Collaborative
Erick Tucker Advisory Board

Eric Tucker

EquityByDesign.org

Karla Phillips-Krivickas

Think Inclusion
Kelly Niccolls

Kelly Niccolls

Cheney Public Schools

Marion Smith Jr.

St. Louis Public Schools

Qiana Patterson

Tamaa Capital

Susan Enfield

Washoe County School District