Director
Charter Friends National Network
Co-founder and Director of an initiative of the Center for Policy Studies and Hamline University in St. Paul. CFNN linked state-level charter support organizations and leaders, prior to being superseded by the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools. Organizational and fiscal management, personnel contract management, new state charter support development fundraising and grant administration, electronic and print communications writing, editing and dissemination, web site management, federal and state policy development and implementation, principal voice for charter schools in U.S. Congress and Department of Education on federal charter school program, IDEA and ESEA/NCLB appropriations, reauthorization and implementation.