Terri Duggan Schwartzbeck joined the Alliance in May 2011 as a senior policy associate. Most recently, Ms. Schwartzbeck was a program manager at the Regional Educational Laboratory Appalachia at CNA where she was responsible for increasing utilization of research and building partnerships with a focus on school turnaround, technology, and rural education. Ms. Schwartzbeck recently returned to the United States after living in Hong Kong for three years where she did freelance writing, editing, and policy work. She also served as a senior policy analyst at the American Association of School Administrators, working on issues of NCLB implementation, rural education, and special education.

Previously, Ms. Schwartzbeck worked for the Council for Basic Education in the areas of state academic standards development and implementation and on issues of comprehensive school reform. She was a fellow in the Institute for Educational Leadership’s Washington, DC education policy fellowship program (1999–2000), and then served as a coordinator of the program from 2003 to 2007. She has a master in public policy degree from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and a bachelor’s degree in history and political science from the University of California at San Diego. She lives in Arlington, Virginia with her husband and two daughters.