Our Management Team

The founding team of Education for Change came together with the goal of blending a diverse background of professional and personal experience. The Education for Change management team blends professional experience across public education, the public sector, for-profit and nonprofit organizations, business, and the philanthropic world. Our team intends to bring the best practices from these many sectors to accomplish our ambitious goals and our mission.

Kevin Wooldridge, Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Kevin Wooldridge was most recently an Executive Director in the Oakland Unified School District supervising 13 elementary schools. He has been a bilingual educator for 26 years, working in three Bay Area school districts at school sites, including 12 years as a site administrator and several years as a senior central office administrator. Mr. Wooldridge has a master’s degree in Education and serves on the state of California’s Curriculum Commission. He also has many years of experience implementing and supporting programs that use the arts to extend and enhance core literacy and English language development programs. In addition, Mr. Wooldridge has been a speaker at both state and national conferences on Bilingual Education, Full Inclusion and Educational Leadership and is currently the co-chair of the Voices for African American Students Committee.

Jessica Evans, Chief Academic Officer
Jessica Evans was formerly the Director of Elementary Education for the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD). Ms. Evans has focused on improving instruction in reading/language arts, English language development, and mathematics. She instituted site based professional development through the Collaborative Inquiry Cycle and Lesson Design Study. Ms. Evans also served as Principal of La Escuelita Elementary School. Ms. Evans is an experienced educator, served as a lecturer at UCLA in reading methods, and as a research assistant in the education evaluation firm Education Matters, Inc. She holds a B.A. from Stanford University, a M.Ed. from UCLA, and a M.Ed. and doctorate from Harvard University.

Fabiola Harvey, Chief Operating Officer
Previous to this, Fabiola served as the Area Financial Manager for the Las Vegas Cluster of Edison Schools. She led start-up and business operations for 7 schools with over 6000 students and 500 employees in Clark County School District. This was the first time that the district awarded a cluster of schools to be managed by one Charter Management Organization. Prior to working in Las Vegas, Fabiola was the Business Manager for one of the most troubled schools in the San Francisco Unified School District. At Edison Charter Academy, Fabiola was able to turn around a difficult financial situation and get the school on firm financial standing. Fabiola brings with her a wealth of experience and a long standing commitment to urban education.