Board of Trustees (page2)

Laura Fisher, Board Secretary
Ms. Fisher is the Board Secretary for Leadership Public Schools. She has held positions in marketing and communications for GolinHarris and then McDonald’s Corporation in Chicago. She has served as board chair of The Breakthrough Collaborative, a board member of the Bay Area Discovery Museum and San Francisco Day School. She currently serves on the board of Urban High School, Steppingstone Foundation and the Stanford University School of Education advisory committee. Ms. Fisher holds a B.A. in Economics from Stanford University.

Heather Hiles
Ms. Hiles is CEO of rrripple. Prior to joining rrripple, she was Partner and National Director, Foundation Division of IFF Advisors LLC, a firm that provides strategic and operational support to a wide range of foundations, family enterprises, corporations, public agencies and nonprofit organizations. Prior to joining IFF, she was President of The Hiles Group LLC, a philanthropic consulting firm. Ms. Hiles was the first CEO of San Francisco Works, a nationally recognized public-private workforce development intermediary, and a co-founder of EARN, a city-wide asset accumulation and economic development program for low-income families. Prior to SFWorks, she created and ran the Affluent Market Practice for Spectrem Group, a financial services consulting firm. Her early career was spent in direct service and program management with educational programs serving low-income teens and families in the Bay Area. Ms. Hiles served as a Commissioner of the San Francisco Board of Education and a member of the San Francisco Workforce Investment Board. In 2003, she was Communications Director for the Gavin Newsom for Mayor Campaign. She holds a MBA with emphasis in Finance and Strategic Planning from Yale University School of Management, and a B.A. in Development Studies and Ethnic Studies from the University of California at Berkeley.

Henrik Jones
Mr. Jones manages private investments and is active in community affairs.  Previously, he led the Real Assets Investment Group at Hall Capital Partners. He has worked in management and finance at bbrooks.com, answers.com, Intermedia Partners, Fidelity Capital, and J.P. Morgan. He serves on the Investment Committees of Marin Country Day School and Gateway High School and Board of FFBP, Inc. He received an A.B. from Brown University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Arminda King
Ms. King is the Geometry teacher and Math Lead at LPS-Richmond. She joined Teach For America as a high school Biology and Geology teacher at the New Orleans Center for Science and Mathematics in New Orleans, Louisiana. She has also taught middle school Science at the Boston Preparatory Charter Public School in Hyde Park, Massachusetts and spent one year on the Teacher Preparation Team at Teach For America, where she helped design training for thousands of new teachers in low-income school districts.  Ms. King holds a B.A. from Tulane University and an Ed. M. in Learning and Teaching from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Mark Kushner-Founder, J.D., Ed. M
Mr. Kushner founded and was the initial CEO of LPS from 2002-2008. A former attorney, high school English teacher and Principal, he previously founded the first urban startup charter high school in California, which has one of the highest graduation rates for African Americans and Latinos in the state. He founded and continues to serve as a member of the California Advisory Commission on Charter Schools, which advises the California State Board of Education on all charter matters. He teaches a course on School Choice at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business and School of Education, and continues to serve on a number of nonprofit boards, including the boards of San Francisco University High School and the Town School for Boys. Education honors include the Harvard Club of San Francisco's Secondary School Educator of the Year and the Hart Vision Award for School Site Administrator, the highest award given to charter school educators in California. Mr. Kushner received a B.A. from Wesleyan University and completed graduate work in literature, law and educational administration at the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (affiliated with Keble College, Oxford University), University of San Francisco (J.D.) and Harvard University (Ed.M.).