By All Means Senior Fellows
Expanding the impact of cradle-to-career place-based systems
EdRedesign's By All Means Senior Fellowship is a visiting fellowship initiative for exemplary senior leaders of place-based collaborative action. The Fellows bring diverse expertise and experiences in cross-sector partnerships, politics, policymaking, school district leadership, community organizing, and public service for the challenges facing children, youth, and families today. Each cohort of Fellows will spend two academic years working with EdRedesign on signature projects that aim to amplify the impact of their work and the field of place-based collaborative action on the national stage.
The Fellowship facilitates new opportunities for collaboration between the Harvard community and leaders at the forefront of social innovations advancing educational equity, upward mobility, and racial justice.
2025-2027 Fellows

Dreama Gentry
- CEO and President, Partners for Rural Impact

Elson B. Nash
- Senior Fellow, Blue Meridian Partners; Strategic Partnerships Lead Consultant, Education Commission of the States; and Former Director, U.S. Department of Education's Division of School Choice and Improvement Programs

Christian Rhodes
- Deputy Executive Director, William Julius Wilson Institute at Harlem Children’s Zone

Rey Saldaña
- President and CEO, Communities In Schools National Office

Sondra Samuels
- President and CEO, Northside Achievement Zone
2023-2025 Fellows

Dr. Russell Booker
- CEO, Spartanburg Academic Movement

Alan Cohen
- Founder & CEO, Child Poverty Action Lab

Sonali Nijhawan
- Immediate Past Director, AmeriCorps State and National

Richard Raya
- CEO, Marin Promise Partnership

Libby Schaaf
- 50th Mayor of Oakland, California (2015-2023)