Eli Pristoop is a director in the Carnegie Foundation's Impact Lab. In this role, Eli collaborates closely with school system partners in gathering and using evidence to deepen our understanding of competency-based models for secondary education, improve attainment, and reduce inequities through the effective implementation of student success systems. 

Before joining the Carnegie Foundation, Eli was a director on the education team at Alvarez & Marsal and prior to that served as a senior program officer at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and as a data analyst at The Education Trust. Eli spent time working for homeless services organizations in New York City as a GED-prep teacher, case manager, and as the waterfront director at the nation’s first sleep-away summer camp designed to serve kids experiencing homelessness.

Eli holds master's degrees from The Columbia University School of Social Work and The Jewish Theological Seminary of America.