Joe DiMartino is president of the Center for Secondary School Redesign, Inc. From 1997 to 2006, he served as director of the Secondary School Redesign program at Brown University. Mr. DiMartino was awarded the 2006 National Association of Secondary School Principals Distinguished Service Award for being the chief architect of Breaking Ranks II™ and for his efforts to further the personalization of education in secondary schools. From 2002 through 2005, he was chair of the National High School Alliance. Mr. DiMartino’s professional endeavors are driven by his awareness of the inequities of an educational system that poorly served his children—two biological children, two adopted Asians, and two adopted Latin Americans. Mr. DiMartino was founder of AGAND USA, Inc., a 501(c)(3) corporation that serves as a fundraising entity for AGAND, an orphanage in Guatemala.