Dr. Gisele C. Shorter is the Program Officer for K-12 education at the Raikes Foundation. She provides strategy, policy, impact scaling, and fundraising consulting services to non-profits, coalitions, and advocacy groups to help them expand their reach and strengthen their impact.
Gisele’s career is rooted in a deep belief that an equitable society starts with an equitable education system. For 20 years, she has led large-scale community-based programs, research, and policy initiatives to advance justice and equity, close health disparities, and ensure access and opportunities for Black and Brown youth and communities to flourish. Dr. Shorter has led youth development, education, and community-based organizations through programmatic resets, large-scale culture change initiatives, and strategic reengineering. In 2018 she was recruited to the Raikes Foundation to lead the K-12 School & System Redesign portfolio focused on a commitment to grow the foundation’s impact and to advance justice and equity in the redesign of our national public education system by leveraging the science of learning and development.
Gisele began her career in the private sector with leadership experiences including Volume.com, an AOL Time Warner company, where she was Head of Research, and ESPN, Inc. where she was a Program Management Associate. She has successfully leveraged her private sector experience, community connections, and academic training to drive positive change on behalf of the most vulnerable youth and communities.
Dr. Shorter earned her EdD from Columbia University Teachers College. She holds an MPA from Long Island University and a BA from Amherst College. She is a Pahara Aspen Fellow and an active member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.