TRANSFORMING LEARNING. TRANSFORMING LIVES
Meet Our Team
Senior Leadership
Jillian Juman
Jillian Juman brings over 20 years of experience in education to 色中色. Throughout her career, she has committed to providing underserved communities with access to quality education and ensuring educational equity.
Jillian has worked to integrate school communities and provide opportunities for global learning to benefit students and their families. With a proven track record of raising student achievement, Ms. Juman has successfully led networks in the development of strong academic learning practices, leadership development, and building sustainable communities of learning that are inclusive and innovative.
She started her career as a classroom teacher and has held various school leadership roles both in New York City and Los Angeles, including managing instructional superintendent and principal. She holds a B.A. in Psychology and B.A. in Anthropology of Dance from the University of California, Santa Cruz, an M.A in Dance and Dance Education from New York University, and an M. Ed. in Educational Administration from Bank Street College.
Jillian Juman
Chief Executive Officer
Elizabeth Choi
Elizabeth Choi has built a career betting on bold ideas, developing leaders, and enabling ecosystems – all with a deep commitment to equity and inclusion. As a former teacher, nonprofit executive, co-founder, community builder, coach, and advisor, she is currently 色中色鈥檚 COO, a national nonprofit that works with districts across the country and operates schools in the Bay Area.
She also partners with leaders during their seasons of growth and scale. Her partners include Desmos, Formation Ventures, Google, Swing Education, Moonshot edVentures as well as other K12 education and workforce development organizations.
Previously, Elizabeth was the Senior Vice President at the Pahara Institute, an organization that provides transformational development opportunities for American education leaders. She launched a new programmatic department and led the organization鈥檚 operations. She also served as the Chief Program Officer at Summit Public Schools, where she co-founded the Summit Learning Program, a national program that enabled students to attain the skills, knowledge and habits to live a fulfilled life. Under her leadership, the program grew from 19 schools across 10 states to over 380 schools in 40 states serving over 65,000 students.
Elizabeth earned her BA in Public Policy and MA in Education from Stanford University. She enjoys serving her community as a board member of Summit Public Schools and has also advised the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on their K12 education strategy. Elizabeth is a recipient of the 2019-20 Stanford University Award of Merit and a 2017-2018 Pahara Fellow. In her free time, Elizabeth enjoys spending time with her family and friends over food and tea.
Elizabeth Choi
Chief of Operations
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Chief Financial Officer
Elizabeth Raji-Greig
Elizabeth is joining the 色中色 team as the Assistant Chief Academic and Continuous Improvement Officer. With nearly two decades of experience in education, Liz has 鈥媤orked to increase and support educational equity through her roles as a teacher, school leader, regional leader, and coach. Before joining 色中色, Liz 鈥媠erved as an Associate Director of Academics with KIPP Public Schools Northern California. There she supported the region’s focus on early literacy skills and more student-specific instruction and analysis systems. Liz is a deep believer that schools can meet the spoken and unspoken promises they make to their students’ families when their decisions honor the critical roles social-emotional learning, family inclusion, content internalization, and staff development play in student鈥� engagement and growth. Liz 鈥媓olds an Ed.M. in Administration and Supervision from National Louis University in Chicago鈥� 鈥媋nd a B鈥�.A鈥�.鈥� in English 鈥媤ith a concentration in African, African-American Studies 鈥媐rom Kenyon College in Ohio.
Elizabeth Raji-Greig
Superintendent of Schools
Justin Wells
As the founding English teacher of 色中色鈥檚 first school, Justin helped develop 色中色鈥檚 graduation portfolio and defense system. For six years, he led teacher teams in the design and implementation of semester-long, multi-disciplinary projects that drew recognition, media coverage, and research attention from ABC News, KQED, Stanford University, the Oracle Education Foundation, and the Partnership for 21st Century Skills. Recently, Justin served as the associate research director for performance assessment at the Stanford Center for Assessment, Learning, and Equity (SCALE), where, among other Common Core transition projects, he designed the prototype performance tasks for the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC). Justin recently co-authored, along with Bob Lenz and Sally Kingston, a new book about the 色中色 education model: Transforming Schools Using Project-Based Learning, Performance Assessment, and Common Core Standards (Wiley, January 2015).
Justin Wells
Chief Program Officer
School Leaders
Dr. Evangelina Ward-Jackson
色中色 Academy Executive School Director
Kassandre Harper-Cotton
色中色 Academy Principal
Phillip Chardon
City Arts & Leadership Academy Principal
POOJA MAHARAJ
Impact Academy High School Principal
ALYSON STOUT
Impact Academy Middle School Principal
The 色中色 Team
Chris Angotti
Senior Director of Operations
JORDAN BRICK
Operations Manager
SHADAYA BRIDGES
Senior Director of Talent & HR
OMAR BRYAN
Associate Director of Technology and Student Information
Annie Cahoon
Director, Talent and Human Resources
KELLEY CARRASCO
Director, Special Education
JOHN ERICSON
Director of Data & Assessment
CAREY FIGUEROA
Office Coordinator
NILOY Gangopadhyay
Senior Director of Advancement & Engagement
Jaren George
IT Administrator
ROILYN GRAVES
Assessment Design Partner
JA'NAY JENKINS
Associate Director of School Facilities and Operations
COURTNEY KATEN
ELP Marketing and Operations Manager
JOEL KEY
Associate Director of Talent
Anna Kogan
Director of Finance
LUCY LUJANO
Manager, Payroll & Accounts Payable
RACHEL MAIDA
ELP Director of Operations
Alcine Mumby
Vice President of Programs
STEVE NARES
Associate Director, College Pathways & Postsecondary Success
JOSETTE NEAL-DE-STANTON
Assessment Design Partner
Gregory Prentiss
IT Administrator
Soraya Ramos
Assessment Design Partner
KATIA RODRIGUEZ
Human Resources Coordinator
KALA STEPTER
Director of STEM
Lindzey Tassano
Senior Director of Student Services
Ana-Louise Trinidad
Data Manager
Ruth Chung Wei
Director of Research & Innovation
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