Joiselle Cunningham
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Senior Adviser to the CEO
Joiselle is a federal policy advisor, consultant and award-winning educator who has worked in the United States, Europe and Latin America. Joiselle has served as a Senior Advisor and consultant at Teach For Sweden, Empieza por Educar as well as other social impact and education organizations. Joiselle recently served in the Obama Administration in the Office of the Secretary at the United States Department of Education (the Department) and managed educator engagement for the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans. Joiselle also led diversity and inclusion policy for the Department and launched Our Students, Our Leaders an initiative dedicated towards closing the demographic gap between education leaders and American public school students. This initiative brought together Chancellor of the District of Columbia Public Schools, Kaya Henderson, former Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, Secretary John King, and over 200 national leaders to develop and implement solutions to increase the number of senior leaders of color in organizations across the country, including philanthropic organizations and large education nonprofit organizations.