Stacey Childress Biography

Stacey Childress is the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Deputy Director of Education. She leads the Next Generation Models team, which is responsible for the development and dissemination of technology-enabled content tools and learning models that promote tailored pathways to success for middle and high school students in the United States. Stacey was on the faculty of Harvard Business School before joining the foundation, where she authored and taught about entrepreneurial activity in public education in the United States. Her studies includes the behavior and methods of leadership teams in urban public school districts charter schools and charity and for-profit organizations with objectives to better the public system. She published three books and over thirty cases and publications concerning education entrepreneurship while at Harvard. In addition, she received teaching honors from her students and the HBS dean for her elective course on education entrepreneurship, which was taken by over 1000 students between 2004 and 2010. Before working in academia Stacey was a co-founder of an enterprise software firm and spent 10 years at a Fortune 500 company in sales and general management. She began her career as a teacher in a public high school in Texas. She attended Baylor University and Harvard Business School, where she was the first woman in school history to be elected to deliver the class day graduation address.

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