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Chief Strategy Officer, Equitable Facilities Fund

Allison Fansler is an executive and organizational leader with deep expertise in management, growth and scale. Allison spent 16 years as the President of KIPP DC, where she led strategy, operations, talent, finance, governance, and external affairs for the network of schools. After joining KIPP DC in 2006, she led KIPP DC expansion efforts from 575 students to over 7,300 students and from 2 to 21 schools, scaling the organization from a startup to a mature organization over multiple phases of growth. After graduating from the University of Virginia, Allison served as the Special Assistant to the Chief of Staff and White House Liaison for the United States Department of Treasury under Secretary Robert E. Rubin. She joined the KIPP Foundation in 2001 and helped to start many of the first KIPP schools across the United States, before earning an MBA from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and returning to KIPP in D.C. Allison has completed both the Broad Residency and she is a fellow of the Aspen Pahara Education Fellowship's eighth class and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. She serves on the board of the DC Charter School Alliance, Connected DMV, and was a member of the Federal City Council in Washington, D.C. Allison is an alumnus of the University of Virginia and Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. In 2018, she was awarded Fuqua’s “Leader of Consequence” alumni award, which recognizes alumni whose exemplary professional accomplishments are matched by the significant positive social or environmental change they have created. Allison lives in Washington, D.C. with her husband and three children.