Raise DC Leadership Council

 

KATHERINE BRADLEY

CityBridge Foundation
President

Katherine Brittain Bradley is the President of CityBridge Foundation, a nonprofit enterprise in Washington, DC. Bradley co-founded CityBridge in 1994 with her husband, entrepreneur, and magazine publisher David G. Bradley. The Foundation works to build a citywide system of high-performing schools in Washington, DC. CityBridge finds, incubates, and invests in the most promising practices in public education, looking to assemble the critical mass of transformative schools—traditional public and charter—needed for the success of all children.

Bradley serves as a board member for the KIPP Foundation, Princeton University, and STAND for Children, and chairs the Washington regional board for Teach For America. In the winter of 2010-2011, Bradley co-chaired Mayor Vincent C. Gray’s education transition team. She graduated from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

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