Keynote Speaker: Margaret Fortune

Margaret Fortune, 36, of Sacramento is the Senior Advisor to Governor Schwarzenegger, specializing in education and urban policy. She has more than a decade of government and non-profit experience. Fortune has served as an education advisor to the Governor since 2005 and most recently she was the Director of Public Affairs. Prior to that, she was Superintendent of St. HOPE Public Schools, a Sacramento-based K-12 charter school district serving 2000 students. There she started Sac High as a charter school. The school has drawn national attention and was featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show. Before joining St. HOPE, Fortune served as director of Project Pipeline Northern California Teacher Recruitment Center. Her experience also includes two years as assistant secretary in the Office of the Secretary for Education, chair of the Commission on Teacher Credentialing and service on the California Children and Families Commission. Fortune holds a baccalaureate degree in Political Science from the University of California at Berkeley where she was the first African American woman elected student body president. She earned her Masters in Public Policy from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.

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