Rob Watson from The EdRedesign Lab at Harvard Graduate School of Education Selected as 2024 Presidential Leadership Scholar

Our deputy director Rob Watson joined 59 other exemplary professionals to form the 2024 Class of Presidential Leadership Scholar. Rob's project will focus on advancing a new national movement for “Promise Cities” that aim to establish place-based public-private partnerships to eliminate intergenerational poverty and place young people and families on pathways to upward mobility and civic leadership. He will develop this project in partnership with local leaders across the nation and from his hometown of Poughkeepsie, New York. Read the full press release.