Elisa Villanueva Beard became the sole chief executive officer of Teach For America in 2015, after serving as the co-CEO alongside Matthew Kramer for two years. Prior to her role as CEO, she led Teach For America’s field operations as the chief operating officer. Elisa also returned to her hometown after teaching for three years as a 1998 Phoenix corps member to serve as the executive director of the Rio Grande Valley region. Under her leadership, Teach For America currently impacts more than 750,000 students in over 2,600 schools. Elisa has a bachelor’s degree in sociology from DePauw University.
Emma Bloomberg is founder and CEO of Murmuration, a non-profit tech company that works with local organizations to amplify the power of civic engagement by providing the data, tools, and research necessary to build healthier and more equitable communities.
Bloomberg has been working with communities and leaders for over 20 years to tackle some of our country’s most pressing challenges and believes deeply in community driven change. From working in the New York City mayor’s office to fighting poverty in New York, Bloomberg has worked with communities across the country to marshall the support needed for America to live up to its founding ideals. She founded Murmuration with the fundamental belief that the collective power of community-driven civic engagement can affect sustainable systems change.
Bloomberg is a board member of Bloomberg Philanthropies, KIPP Foundation, National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, UndauntedK12, and LEE. She also runs, with her sister, the Emma and Georgina Bloomberg Foundation, a private charitable foundation supporting education and animal rights groups. She has been an advisor to the Mayoral Leadership in Education Network at Harvard Kennedy School and chair of the Stand for Children Leadership Center.
Bloomberg holds an A.B. from Princeton University, an MPA from The Harvard Kennedy School, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Mike Buman is the executive director of LEE. Most recently, he was a partner in the New York office of the global management consulting firm McKinsey & Co., where he was a leader in the financial institutions practice focusing on insurance and asset management. He has also worked with many education organizations throughout New York City. Prior to McKinsey, Mike worked at Electronic Data Systems in software development. He is a graduate of Michigan State University and New York University Stern School of Business.
Arthur Rock is Principal of Arthur Rock & Co. and was a partner in Davis & Rock from 1961 to 1968, both venture capital firms. He served as Chairman of the Board of Scientific Data Systems and a member of the board of directors of Teledyne Inc., Xerox, Argonaut Insurance, Apple Computer, AirTouch, the Nasdaq Stock Market, and Echelon Corporation. Arthur was a founder of Intel Corp. and served as chairman of the board, chairman of the executive committee and lead director. He founded the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship at the Harvard Business School, and he and his wife Toni founded the Arthur & Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University. Arthur was co-founder and is president emeritus of The Basic Fund, which gives scholarships to inner-city children to attend K-8 private schools. He is also on the board of Teach For America and Children’s Scholarship Fund and an active funder of KIPP. Arthur received a bachelor’s in political science and finance from Syracuse University and a master’s in business administration from Harvard University.
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