BRYAN C. HASSEL is Co-President of Public Impact. He consults nationally with leading public agencies, nonprofit organizations, and foundations working for dramatic improvements in K–12 education. He is a recognized expert on charter schools, school turnarounds, school funding systems, and teacher and principal effectiveness. His work has appeared in Education Next, Education Week, and numerous other publications. He was named to the spring 2015 class of the Pahara-Aspen Education Fellows Program, designed to support exceptional leaders reimagining U.S. public schools. Dr. Hassel received his Ph.D. in public policy from Harvard University and his master’s degree in politics from Oxford University, which he attended as a Rhodes Scholar. He earned his B.A. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, which he attended as a Morehead Scholar. He is a senior research affiliate with the Center on Reinventing Public Education. Read More or Contact Bryan…
EMILY AYSCUE HASSEL is Co-President of Public Impact. She provides thought leadership and oversight to Public Impact’s work on teacher and leader policy, organizational change, parental choice of schools, and emerging opportunities for dramatic improvement in pre–K to grade 12 education. Ms. Hassel is co-leading Public Impact’s Opportunity Culture initiative, an effort to reach more students with excellent teachers and principals and provide more educators with paid residencies, on-the-job support, and paid career advancement. Her work has appeared in Education Week, Education Next, and other publications. Ms. Hassel was a Pahara-Aspen Teacher Leader Fellow, in a group designed to cultivate and support teacher leaders who are working to improve the teaching profession and student outcomes. She was previously a consultant and manager for the Hay Group, a leading human resources consulting firm. Ms. Hassel received her law and master in business administration degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she served on the North Carolina Law Review. Read More or Contact Emily…
LUCY STEINER is the senior vice president for educator excellence and implementation services and a group director at Public Impact. She spearheads implementation of Opportunity Culture staffing models in schools and districts nationwide, leads complex projects, manages and develops consultants, and serves on the firmwide management team. She and her project teams deliver research, training, and consulting on a variety of critical education issues, including teacher and leader policy, school restructuring and turnarounds, and teacher professional development. Her work often provides a bridge between district leadership, school leadership, and instruction. Read More or Contact Lucy…
SHARON KEBSCHULL BARRETT is the vice president for editorial services and communications at Public Impact. She writes publications about the Opportunity Culture initiative, edits all materials for the Opportunity Culture website, edits the firm’s blogs and Public Impact reports, works with Opportunity Culture Fellows to edit the columns they write, and provides other research, interviewing, and writing for the firm. Read More or Contact Sharon…
ANDY BAXTER is vice president for policy and management consulting at Public Impact. His work focuses on developing measures of success for schools serving students with acute needs; supporting Opportunity Culture implementation in districts; and providing guidance on a national large-scale randomized control trial of a teacher-leader strategy. Read More or Contact Andy…
LYRIA BOAST is the vice president for data analytics and a senior consulting manager at Public Impact and serves on the firmwide management team. Ms. Boast leads Public Impact’s work evaluating educational quality metrics at the school, district and state levels and developing accountability systems to monitor school performance. She manages a range of survey projects that focus on teacher perceptions and school climate, and oversees data collection efforts to catalog charter school closure actions and develop a national database of authorizers and their schools. She also leads the development of and ongoing updates to the data dashboard illustrating Public Impact’s Opportunity Culture work in schools across the U.S. She has also contributed to projects on extending the reach of excellent teachers, school finance, and evaluating school turnarounds. Read More or Contact Lyria…
WHITAKER BROWN is an associate consultant with Public Impact, focusing on assisting districts and schools in implementing Opportunity Culture models, which extend the reach of excellent teachers and their teams. Read More or Contact Whitaker…
RENEE COLEMAN is an analyst at Public Impact, doing research and collecting data on education issues and supporting the Opportunity Culture implementation team and the communications team. Read More or Contact Renee…
GRAYSON COOPER is a senior consultant with Public Impact, conducting quantitative research and analysis and assisting schools and districts implementing an Opportunity Culture. Read More or Contact Grayson…
STEPHANIE DEAN is vice president of strategic policy advising and a senior consulting manager at Public Impact. Her work focuses on identifying and cultivating state policy conditions that help schools extend the reach of excellent teachers. She has also written and advised clients on teacher preparation, teacher evaluation, school leadership, technology in rural education, competency-based assessment systems, and the development of “learner positioning systems” to create a platform for personalized learning. Read More or Contact Stephanie…
CIERA DIXON is a consultant with Public Impact, focused primarily on assisting districts and schools in implementing Opportunity Culture models, which extend the reach of excellent teachers and their teams. Read More or Contact Ciera…
DANIELA DOYLE is the vice president for policy and management research at Public Impact. Her work addresses a wide range of education issues, including school finance, turnarounds, the relationship between a city’s district and charter schools, and overall charter school quality and growth. Ms. Doyle co-authored Measuring Teacher Effectiveness: A Look “Under the Hood” of Teacher Evaluation Systems, which won the “Most Actionable Research” Eddies! award from the PIE Network. Read More or Contact Daniela…
SHONAKA ELLISON is a senior consultant with Public Impact, assisting schools in implementing an Opportunity Culture and performing state policy analyses to extend the reach of excellent teachers. Read More or Contact Shonaka…
PRESTON FAULK is an associate consultant with Public Impact, conducting quantitative analyses of schools and districts, with a focus on accountability and school turnarounds. Read More or Contact Preston…
PAOLA GILLIAM is the media coordinator for Public Impact, supporting the communications team’s efforts internally and externally on written, video, and social media. Read more or Contact Paola…
DAVID GILMORE is an analyst at Public Impact, doing research and collecting data on education issues and supporting the data analytics team on a variety of projects. Read More or Contact David…
IZZI HERNANDEZ-CRUZ is a consultant with Public Impact, conducting research and quantitative analyses of school and district performance metrics to support strong accountability and turnaround evaluation efforts in both traditional and charter schools. Read More or Contact Izzi…
LaSHONDA B. HESTER a senior consultant with Public Impact, focused primarily on school turnarounds and on assisting districts and schools in implementing Opportunity Culture models, which extend the reach of excellent teachers and their teams. Read More or Contact LaShonda…
MARGARET HIGH is a writer for Public Impact. Her work spans the focus areas of Public Impact through case studies, publications, blog posts, and other materials. Read More or Contact Margaret…
JESSICA JENKINS is an associate consultant with Public Impact, focused primarily on assisting districts and schools in implementing Opportunity Culture models, which extend the reach of excellent teachers and their teams. Read More or Contact Jessica…
JULI KIM is a senior consultant with Public Impact conducting qualitative research, analysis, and evaluation related to a range of education issues. Her published work focuses on school turnaround models and initiatives, charter sector growth, and the role of philanthropy in education. Read More or Contact Juli…
KENDALL HEDDING KING is a senior consultant with Public Impact, with a focus on professional development and assisting districts and schools in implementing Opportunity Culture models, which extend the reach of excellent teachers and their teams. Read More or Contact Kendall…
CASSIE LUTTERLOH is a senior consultant with Public Impact, focusing on assisting schools and districts in implementing an Opportunity Culture. Read More or Contact Cassie…
CHANDLER ROWLAND is an associate consultant with Public Impact, focused primarily on assisting districts and schools in implementing Opportunity Culture models, which extend the reach of excellent teachers and their teams. Read More or Contact Chandler…
COLE SMITH is an analyst with Public Impact, collecting, analyzing, and communicating data and research on education topics, and supporting the data analytics team. Read More or Contact Cole…
TROY SMITH is a senior consultant with Public Impact, focusing on assisting districts and schools in implementing Opportunity Culture models that extend the reach of excellent teachers and their teams. Read More or Contact Troy…
BEVERLEY TYNDALL is the vice president for production and web communications at Public Impact. She coordinates the layout and production of all publications, manages the firm’s websites, and produces videos for the Opportunity Culture initiative. Read More or Contact Beverley…
ALISON HARRIS WELCHER is the vice president of school turnarounds and transformation at Public Impact. Along with managing the turnaround and school transformation practice, Dr. Harris Welcher helps lead national Opportunity Culture implementation, and serves on the firmwide senior leadership team. She works intensively with school and system leaders to build both the culture and systems for sustained excellence for all students and educators. Read More or Contact Alison…
Administrative Team
KARA AYCOCK is a systems support associate at Public Impact managing scheduling, travel, and events planning, and she assists with hiring and special projects Read More or Contact Kara…
CARRIE FRAIPONT is the finance manager at Public Impact. She manages the firm’s financial systems, including financial accounting, planning, analysis and reporting. Read More or Contact Carrie…
ANNE HALSTATER is the manager of human resource systems at Public Impact, including benefits, compensation and performance management. Read More or Contact Anne…
KAREN HERPEL is the manager of talent and office services at Public Impact, handling hiring, training, diversity planning and special projects. Read More or Contact Karen…
TARA MEADOWS-NEILL is a systems support associate at Public Impact, assisting with the implementation and maintaining of organization-wide finance and office systems. Read More or Contact Tara…
COLLIN VILEN is an operations assistant at Public Impact assisting with office operations. Read More or Contact Collin…
