With over 20 years of experience in education, Beth is a dynamic, accomplished executive with a national reputation as a successful, positive leader. Most recently, Beth founded and served as Chief Executive and Academic Officer at Chicago Collegiate, a 5th-12th grade charter school network on the Far South Side of Chicago. Chicago Collegiate has the highest-rated open-enrollment high school on the Far South Side and is on track to have 100% of their students accepted to college in 2021, the year their founding class of 5th graders graduates. Before that, Beth served in roles as varied as the Senior Managing Director of the Teach For America Institute to the founding Dean of Instruction at KIPP: Gaston College Preparatory. She is an national award-winning teacher, and founder of several highly successful leadership development programs,. Beth graduated from Barnard College of Columbia University with a degree in American Studies, with a focus on social justice and is a single mom who lives in Chicago with her three amazing kids and soon, a pandemic puppy.