Ashley Beckner

Ashley Beckner is a former elementary school operator and recovering finance professional who joined Imaginable Futures and Omidyar Network to drive progress toward the vital importance of early experiences and brain development as the foundation for lifelong success.

Prior, Ashley built and ran the non-instructional side of Bricolage Academy, an innovative, socioeconomically diverse, startup charter elementary school in New Orleans, Louisiana, as its founding director of finance, strategy, and operations. Ashley also spent a summer as an Education Pioneers Fellow with the Silicon Schools Fund.

What she says about her Bricolage experience, “I was on the founding team, launching a school in New Orleans, Louisiana that was socioeconomically and racially diverse by design. We were in every sense a startup, but we had 75 5-year-olds show up every day, and it was the only kindergarten year those children would ever have, so we had to deliver. We worked hard, and the school grew and thrived. It was the hardest work I have ever done, on many levels, but also the most fulfilling.”

Ashley began her career at Morgan Stanley as an investment banking analyst focused on the real estate sector and as a special projects associate working on a series of internal company projects.

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