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Cami Anderson is the Founder and CEO of ThirdWay Solutions — a collaborative of change agents helping government, non-profit, education, corporate and philanthropic clients tackle their most difficult internal and external challenges in pursuit of equity. ThirdWay’s initiatives include: (1) The Discipline Revolution Project — a coalition of leaders on a path to end the school-to-prison pipeline, (2) The 20% Project — cross-sector, collective action solutions to support young people that systems have failed the most, (3) Make An Appointment — ensuring a diverse group of women hold 50% of C-suite leadership positions, and (4) Operation ABAR — supporting organizations and corporations to make explicit commitments to anti-biased, anti-racist principles and align their people, policies, and practices to those principles.
Cami Anderson brings first-hand knowledge to this work. She's a six-time chief executive of high-profile organizations who has spent more than 25 years relentlessly cutting through outdated systems and brass-knuckle politics to push change.
She served as Superintendent of schools for nearly 10 years, first in New York City and then in Newark, where she received national attention for improving student outcomes and pushing innovation. She co-founded ROADS, a network of charter high schools and advocates dedicated to court-involved youth. Anderson is the former Executive Director of Teach For America New York, Chief Program Officer of New Leaders for New Schools, and Issues Director for Cory Booker. She’s also a former middle school teacher, youth theatre director and Title IX activist.
Cami is widely published from the Wall Street Journal to USA Today and is a contributor for Forbes where she writes a column, In The Room about trailblazing female leaders. She’s a member of the Aspen Global Leaders Initiative and served as a Scholar-in-Residence at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. She won the Peter Jennings Award for Civic Leadership, received a national Points of Light award for service and was recognized by Time Magazine as one of the world’s 100 most influential people. In 2022, she received a lifetime achievement award from the King Center in Atlanta for her leadership in making a more "just, humane, equitable, and peaceful world."
She is the sister to eleven, a volunteer soccer coach, a Title IX advocate, a theatre geek, an amateur triathlete, and a TedEx speaker. She, her partner, and her son love outdoor adventures, board games, and road trips.
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