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Caitrin Wright - Silicon School Fund
Caitrin Wright, CEO
Caitrin Wright - Silicon School Fund

Caitrin Wright

CEO

Caitrin Wright is the CEO at the Silicon Schools Fund leading our strategy, investor relations, and guiding our board and team. Previously, she served for more than a decade as the Managing Partner of the fund and worked at the Stupski Foundation and the Bridgespan Group, focused on developing and implementing strategies that transform and scale effective teaching and learning practices. She currently sits on the board of the Oakland REACH, and she served as the President of the Board of Directors at Navigator Schools, a high performing school network in California. Caitrin began her career at McKinsey and Company and received her Bachelor of Arts from Harvard College and a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School. She is the proud mom of two sons and lives in Oakland.

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Kelly Garcia, Associate Partner
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Kelly Garcia

Associate Partner

Kelly Garcia is the Associate Partner at Silicon Schools leading our Instructional Improvement work and many elements of our academic programs. Kelly brings deep experience in public education where she has been a teacher, site-leader, school founder, board member, Chief of Staff, and Chief of Schools in district and charter settings. Most recently, Kelly helped lead Summit Public Schools for the past two decades with a track record of significant national impact. She is a Pahara Next Gen Fellow, board secretary for East Bay Innovation Academy, and an alum of Stanford University and the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is the mother of two children and one adorable dog.

Elena Sanina, Vice President

Elena Sanina

Vice President

Elena Sanina leads the innovation in education strategy at Silicon Schools. Previously, Elena was a founding member of Charter School Growth Fund’s Impact team where she launched the College Access and Alumni Success practice, supporting postsecondary access & economic opportunity for charter school graduates. Prior to joining CSGF, Elena led the design, implementation, and evaluation of innovative learning models at Aspire Public Schools. She started her career in management technology consulting at Deloitte and cofounded ThanksForTeaching.Us, a global effort to thank teachers for the actions, dreams, and passions they’ve inspired. Originally from Kiev, Ukraine, Elena is a proud UC Berkeley grad and lives in Oakland with her husband and toddler twins.

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Amy Ng, Vice President
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Amy Ng

Vice President

Amy Ng leads our operations, finance, grants management, and data and analytics work at Silicon Schools. She spent five years at Aspire Public Schools, leading the network’s Operations team, charter petitions and renewals, authorizer compliance, state and federal reporting, and the development of school ops leaders. Amy began her career at Amazon.com as a Financial Analyst, who helped launch the Kindle e-reader and digital content business while overseeing the Amazon retail vendor services and experience business. Amy is a first generation Chinese-American to graduate from high-school and college and received her B.A. from The University of Washington.

Jay Stack, Director

Jay Stack

Director

Jay Stack has spent 18 years in education with Aspire Public Schools where he served as a Playworks Coach, elementary teacher, and finally as a school principal for the last ten years. He has an undergraduate degree in Elementary Education from Pennsylvania State University and a Masters in Educational Leadership from University of California, Berkeley. As the new Director at Silicon Schools Fund, he brings his passion for transformative education to a broader platform, where he aims to foster the development and success of innovative schools that prioritize personalized learning and equity.

Shauntel Garvey, Board Chair

Shauntel Garvey

Board Chair

Shauntel Garvey is a Co-Founder and General Partner at Reach Capital where she provides startup capital and support to technology companies focused on issues of access and opportunity in education. Prior to Reach, Shauntel was a Partner at NewSchools Venture Fund and invested in over 40 early stage K12 edtech companies through the NewSchools Seed Fund. Shauntel is an active writer and thought leader in the education technology space and published “New Approaches to Edtech Funding” in the Stanford Social Innovation Review. She received her BS in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and her MBA and MA in Education from Stanford University.

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Brian Greenberg, Board of Directors
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Brian Greenberg

Board of Directors

Brian Greenberg founded Silicon Schools in 2011 growing the organization from $0 to $100M of impact. He is a multi-time founder and entrepreneur and is a former Chief Academic Officer, school founder, classroom teacher and active board member and advisor to several companies. A speaker nationally on personalized learning, education, and venture philanthropy, Brian is the co-creator of the Coursera and Khan Academy MOOC on blended learning, a Stanford University Principal Fellow, and an Aspen Institute Pahara Fellow. Brian received his B.A. from Dartmouth College and an M.Ed. from Harvard University.

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Lisa Sobrato Sonsini, Board of Directors
Lisa Sobrato - Silicon Schools Fund

Lisa Sobrato Sonsini

Board of Directors
President, Sobrato Family Foundation

Lisa Sobrato Sonsini established the Sobrato Family Foundation in 1996 as a vehicle for multiple generations of the Sobrato family to unify their philanthropic giving for maximum impact. Under her leadership as Board President, SFF has grown tenfold in both assets and annual giving. For over 20 years, Lisa has been a strong advocate for the rights of abused and neglected children and youth from communities in need throughout the Bay Area. She also works passionately as a catalyst for civic engagement among many of the rising leaders in Silicon Valley. Before establishing SFF, Lisa practiced for five years as a corporate associate at the law firm of Brobeck, Phleger and Harrison. Lisa received a J.D. from Boalt Hall School of Law at UC Berkeley, and a BA in Communication Studies with an emphasis in Business Administration from UCLA. Lisa resides in Menlo Park with her husband Matt and their three children.

John Fisher, Board of Directors

John Fisher

Board of Directors
President, Pisces Inc.

John Fisher is the son of Doris and the late Don Fisher and a partner of Sansome Partners. In addition to managing the family’s timber and sports investments, John is Chairman of the KIPP Foundation, Co-Chairman of the Charter School Growth Fund, Advisor to the Fisher Fund, and board member with his brothers Bob and Bill of the City Fields Foundation. He received his B.A. from Princeton University and an MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business.

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Grace Voorhis, Board of Directors
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Grace Voorhis

Board of Directors

Grace Voorhis is a community volunteer and philanthropist passionate about education. Grace is a founding regional board member and Board Chair of KIPP Public Schools: Northern California. In this capacity, she chaired the $150M Capital campaign and Development Committee and served on the Strategic Planning Committee, the Governance Committee, the Finance Committee, the Facilities Committee, and the Executive Committee. Grace also serves on the Advisory Council of the Stanford Graduate School of Education and on the board of Alder Graduate School of Education. Grace has served as a Director of the Breakthrough Collaborative, the Nueva School, and as Treasurer of the St. Francis Homes Association.

Grace was a Partner at Morgan Stanley Venture Partners, where she invested in health care companies. Prior to Venture, she worked in investment banking in corporate finance at Morgan Stanley. Grace is a graduate of Harvard College and the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Tommy Chang, Board of Directors

Tommy Chang

Board of Directors

Dr. Tommy Chang is the CEO of the New Teacher Center. He is an education leader who has worked across the country, previously serving as the Superintendent of Boston Public Schools from 2015-18. Prior to that, Tommy served as the local instructional superintendent of the Intensive Support & Innovation Center at the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), where he focused on school turnaround efforts and supported innovative school models in the school district. A native of Taiwan who immigrated with his family to the U.S. at age six, Dr. Chang grew up in Los Angeles and holds an Ed.D. from Loyola Marymount University, M.Ed.’s from the Principals Leadership Institute and the Teachers Education Program at the University of California Los Angeles, and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

Kathleen Donohue, Board of Directors

Kathleen Donohue

Board of Directors

Kathleen Donohue is co-founder of Tandem Philanthropies, a foundation that focuses on discovery, innovation and leadership to address the pressing issues of our time. In the education space, Tandem supports emerging models for a more learner-centered approach to growth. A clinical psychologist with a focus on classrooms and schools, for nearly a decade she served on the faculty at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Education and Department of Psychology. She is the past chair of the board at the Nueva School, a trustee of the American Conservatory Theater, and an ambassador for KIPP Northern California. She received her BA from Yale University, and her MA and PhD in clinical psychology from UC Berkeley.

Felix Ruano, Board of Directors

Felix Ruano

Board of Directors

Felix Ruano is the Co-founder and President of Subject, an edtech startup delivering accredited high school courses through a membership model. Before founding Subject, Felix was the Chief Executive Officer of a test prep business and was a management consultant with McKinsey & Company, where he advised companies across Technology, Industrials and private equity sectors. He is a council member of Asia Society’s Center for Global Education and the Hispanic Scholarship Fund, and a fellow of the Pahara Institute. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Latinos for Education. A Gates Millenium Scholar, he graduated from Harvard University with a degree in Economics.

The Silicon Schools Fund is financially supported through philanthropic investments from individuals and foundations who are thought leaders in education, philanthropy, business, and technology.

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