Board

Chair: Kristin Ehrgood

Kristin Ehrgood is president & founder of Sapientis, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the quality of public education in Puerto Rico. Additionally, she is the President of the Flamboyan Foundation, a family foundation that focuses on improving public K-12 in school time through strategic partnerships in Puerto Rico and Washington, DC. In spring 2005, Ms. Ehrgood’s work at Sapientis was recognized by Ernst & Young when she was awarded Entrepreneur of the Year in the area of Social Responsibility. Previously, Ms Ehrgood joined Teach For America and taught for three years in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Trenton, New Jersey. Ms. Ehrgood later joined the Teach For America staff as Executive Director of their New Jersey region and then as Director of New Site Development. Ms. Ehrgood is a graduate of Bucknell University and Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Vice-chair: Mieka Wick

Mieka Wick is the Executive Director of CityBridge Foundation.  Her work is focused on efforts to educate and engage other local philanthropists in DC’s education landscape and build collaborations of funders around high impact investments in K-12 education reform in Washington, DC. Mieka’s prior experience includes three years at New Profit Inc., a Boston-based venture philanthropy fund, where she served as Investor Relations Manager, and two years as a consultant to Massachusetts’ Commissioner of Education David Driscoll on teacher quality legislation for the State of MA.  After completing her MBA, she spent two years at Reebok International working on the merger of the Reebok brand with The Adidas Group. Mieka holds a BA from Brown University and an MBA from Babson University.  She is a Founding Board Member of DC School Reform Now and is a Member-at-Large of the Executive Board of the National Cathedral School for Girls Alumnae Association.

Secretary: Mary Siddall

Mary Siddall is the founder and an advisory board member of America’s Future Foundation, a network of young conservative and libertarian leaders. In a previous life she ran the Heritage Foundation’s No Excuses campaign, a national marketing effort that showcased high-performing, high-poverty schools. A mother of three, Mary currently has two school-aged children enrolled in DCPS.

Terry Goings

Terry Goings is the president of the Local School Restructuring Team (LSRT) at Coolidge High School DC, tasked with restructuring the school after it failed to meet Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) for five consecutive years, as mandated by the No Child Left Behind Program. Two of Terry’s children also graduated from Coolidge.

Bill Tucker

Bill Tucker has helped to lead Education Sector, an independent, nonpartisan education policy think tank devoted to developing innovative solutions to the nation’s most pressing educational problems, since its inception in 2005. In his policy work for Education Sector, he focuses on technology and innovation—specifically assessments, virtual schooling, and the use of data to improve student outcomes. He currently serves on the board of directors at Achievement Preparatory Public Charter School in Washington, D.C. and on the Steering Committee for the Policy Innovators in Education Network. He is a graduate of Duke University and has both an MBA and a Master's of Education from Stanford University.

Jonah Goldman

Jonah Goldman is Senior Vice President, Partner Services and External Affairs at the Democracy Alliance. Before joining the DA, Jonah lead the Issues, Causes and Advocacy practice at the Glover Park Group where he advised and implemented a wide range of issue campaigns for foundations, corporations and not for profit organizations on a range of issues. He also helped lead the firm's Education Practice.

For over a decade, Jonah has been involved in advocacy and policy campaigns at the state and national level. He is a national expert on voting and elections. From 2004 - 2008 he led Election Protection, the largest convening of civil rights organizations unified to protect the voices of traditionally disenfranchised voters through an unprecedented coalition of over 130 organizations – the largest voting rights campaign in history.

Jonah graduated with honors from both Binghamton University and Boston College Law School where he was the recipient of the John F. Cremens Award for excellence in clinical programs.

Erika Beltrán

Erika Beltrán is a Senior Policy Analyst for the Children’s and Education Policy Project at the National Council of La Raza (NCLR) in Washington, D.C. Ms. Beltrán conducts research, policy analysis, and advocacy on education issues and the Latino community. Prior to joining NCLR, Ms. Beltrán was a Fellow at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation where she conducted research to help inform grantmaking strategies related to improving access to high-quality preschool programs in the state of California. Ms. Beltrán also taught bilingual kindergarten and fourth grade as Teach For America corps member in Houston, Texas. She earned a master’s degree from the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas-Austin and holds a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Williams College.