Board
Caitrin Wright
August 14, 2025Caitrin is the CEO of Silicon Schools Fund, an organization that provides seed funding to launch new schools and transform learning environments so all students can reach their full potential….
Patrice Wakeley
August 14, 2025Patrice Wakeley is a dedicated educational leader with a strong commitment to fostering inclusive and equitable learning environments. Experienced in developing and implementing diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging strategies, providing…
Gary Borden
August 14, 2025Gary is a partner at the City Fund, an organization dedicated to transforming urban public school systems to improve opportunities for society’s most vulnerable children. In this role, Gary and…
Scott Phoenix
April 4, 2025Scott Phoenix is a partner at Fifty Years, a venture capital firm backing scientists and engineers solving the world’s biggest problems with technology. He was previously the co-founder and CEO…
Polly Lockman
September 6, 2024Polly Lockman has served as the communications director at The College Preparatory School since 2013. She has a B.A. in English literature from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, a B.F.A….
Dave Hoverman
September 6, 2024Dave is a senior partner at Bain & Company, a strategy consulting firm, where he works with private equity investors and their portfolio companies. He leads the firm’s practice in…
Shruti M. Deorah
September 6, 2024Shruti M. Deorah is the executive director of the India Energy & Climate Center (IECC) at the Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley and an Affiliate at Lawrence Berkeley…
Lukasz Strozek – Board Chair
July 30, 2024Lukasz Strozek is Chief Technology Officer at LendingClub, where he oversees a global engineering team responsible for the development of the company’s technology solutions across a number of lines of…
Mirna Cervantes
January 17, 2024Mirna Cervantes is a first-generation Latina leader with a demonstrated 15 years of experience working in the nonprofit sector serving immigrant communities. In 2010, she joined The Multicultural Institute (MI),…
Max Christoff – Vice Chair
January 17, 2024Max Christoff is senior director of engineering for Chrome at Google and a utilitarian at heart who enjoys applying cutting edge technology to solve practical, everyday problems in complex ecosystems….










