In January, Brooke Stafford-Brizard was named vice president for innovation and impact at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Since she started her professional life as a middle school teacher in the Bronx, Stafford-Brizard has held a variety of roles in education — both in and out of the classroom. She cofounded a girls’ public charter school in Rochester, New York, was director of data strategy and evaluation at the New York City Department of Education, and earned a Ph.D. in cognitive science in education from Columbia.
