Our Team

Anthony Jackson, Vice President

Anthony Jackson is the Vice President for Education and Leadership at Asia Society. He also leads Asia Society’s Partnership for Global Learning (PGL), a national network of practitioners and policymakers dedicated to integrating knowledge about Asia and the world as a mainstay of American education. Over the past six years, he has led the development of Asia Society’s International Studies Schools Network, an effort within the PGL to create a network of small, effective, internationally-themed secondary schools across the country. Before joining Asia Society, he was a Director of the Walt Disney Company’s Disney Learning Partnership. Trained in both developmental psychology and education, Jackson is one of the nation’s leading experts on secondary school reform and adolescent development. Jackson worked on Capitol Hill as a senior staff member on the Select Committee on Children, Youth and Families, and later directed the Carnegie Corporation Task Force on the Education of Young Adolescents which produced the ground breaking report Turning Points. He also co-authored the follow-up blueprint Turning Points 2000, which transformed many of the design principles in the original report into concrete action steps for new and reconstituted secondary schools. In 2011, Jackson co-authored the book Educating for Global Competence: Preparing Our Youth to Engage the World, a publication co-developed by the Asia Society and the Council of Chief State School Officers’ EdSteps Program. This book defines the concept of global competence as a consensus standard for the field, and provides a cohesive framework for globally focused K-12 education.

Wendy Blankenburg
Executive Associate, International Studies Schools Network (Los Angeles)
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Neelam Chowdhary
Executive Director, Global Learning Programs
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Eleise Jones
Senior Program Associate, Education and Chinese Language Initiatives
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Jessica Kehayes
Executive Director
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Chris Livaccari
Director, Education and Chinese Language Initiatives
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Heather Loewecke
Senior Program Manager, Afterschool and Youth Leadership Initiatives
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Alexis Menten
Director, Afterschool and Youth Leadership Initiatives
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Honor Moorman
Associate Director, Professional Development and Curriculum
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Grace Norman
Managing Editor, Education Online (Seattle)
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Aparna Patankar
Executive Associate
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Yun Qin
Senior Program Associate, Education and Chinese Language Initiatives
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Heather Singmaster
Senior Program Associate (Portland)
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Lisa Tyrrell
Associate Director, International Studies Schools Network
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Jeff Wang
Associate Director, Education and Chinese Language Initiatives
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Brandon Wiley
Director, International Studies Schools Network
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Yi Zheng
Executive Assistant, Education and Chinese Language Initiatives
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