Amy Huang

Senior Director of Programs – LEAP Innovations

 

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LEAP Innovations is a Chicago-based nonprofit organization that connects innovation and education to reinvent the one-size-fits-all system and transform the way kids learn.

As LEAP’s Senior Director of Programs, Amy oversees all of LEAP’s core programs that serve educators, students and edtech companies. As a founding member of the LEAP team, Amy played a key role in shaping the organization and took the lead in building Breakthrough Schools Chicago, LEAP’s whole-school redesign program. Amy has a decade of experience developing and implementing innovative education strategies.

Prior to joining LEAP, Amy was the Portfolio Manager at New Schools for Chicago. In this role, she led the due diligence on charter school investments, managed the charter authorization partnership with CPS, and helped to develop the early organizational strategy for personalized learning. Prior to joining NSC, Amy was a consultant with A.T. Kearney, a management consulting firm that advises Fortune 500 clients. She previously taught high school biology and chemistry in West Oakland with Teach For America, winning the 2006 TFA Bay Area Award for Innovation in Teaching. She earned her MBA from the Ross of Business at the University of Michigan, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Rochester.