The Nellie Mae Education Foundation recently selected Gisele C. Shorter as its next president and CEO.
Shorter previously served as director of national education strategy at the Raikes Foundation. She is an adjunct professor and founding faculty member of the EdD in Leadership and Innovation degree program at NYU Steinhardt Department of Administration, Leadership, and Technology.
Shorter holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from Amherst College, a master of public administration degree from LIU Brooklyn and a doctorate in education from Columbia University.
“We are thrilled to welcome Dr. Shorter to the Foundation,” said Dr. Warren Simmons, Board Chair, Nellie Mae Education Foundation in a written statement. “Her commitment to rooting out education inequality makes her the perfect fit to build on the Foundation’s mission, vision, and values and scale what we know works in using a student-centered racial equity lens, to enhance community-driven change.”
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