Monica Martinez Joins Learning Forward Board

June 2017

Monica Martinez has joined Learning Forward’s board of trustees. Martinez is senior school support strategist for XQ Institute, an organization dedicated to rethinking school in America. She was a senior fellow to the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and appointed by President Obama to the President’s Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanics. Her career encompasses programmatic, management, and executive leadership roles primarily around secondary reform and college readiness. Before working at XQ, Martinez was an independent consultant, president of the New Tech Network, and vice president for education strategy at KnowledgeWorks. In Washington, D.C., she was a senior associate at the Institute for Educational Leadership. She is the author of Deeper Learning: How Eight Innovative Public Schools Are Transforming Education in the Twenty-First Century