At the time of publication, Ethan Gray served as executive director of CEE-Trust, a national network of 29 city-based nonprofit organizations, foundations, and mayors’ offices across the United States that support education reform. CEE-Trust acted as a convener, a collaborator, and a consultant, helping its member organizations accelerate the pace of education innovation and reform in their cities. Before leading CEE-Trust, Gray was vice-president of The Mind Trust in Indianapolis. He also worked as the policy director at Be the Change Inc. in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he helped craft a policy agenda to expand national and community service opportunities that strongly influenced the introduction of the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act of 2009.
Gray is an honors graduate of Harvard College and holds a master’s degree in educational policy and management from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.