Claudia Quintero
Senior Director & Co-founder
Claudia is one of Seek Common Ground's co-founders and currently serves as Senior Director where she supports education advocates and community leaders across the country as they build diverse and impactful partnerships to improve student outcomes in their local contexts. Claudia currently manages the Project for Adolescent Literacy, a teacher-led initiative seeking solutions to the adolescent literacy crisis. Claudia has previously managed the Immigration is American Collaboration Network (IACN), a network of 16 organizations from across the country who support immigrant and refugee families in schools and communities, as well as the Ohio Whole Child Action Accelerator and Collaboration Network, Leadership Collaboration Network, and Measurement Assessment, and Accountability Action Accelerator. Previously Claudia served as a Senior Associate at Achieve where she managed the Coalition Support Network consisting of over a dozen state-based education advocacy coalitions nationwide. Prior to that role, Claudia helped manage a network of Latin American business leaders heading multi-national corporations at the Group of Fifty. She earned a Master's in Public Administration from The George Washington University and a bachelor's degree from the University of Virginia.
Skills/Workstreams: Strategy, planning, program management, evaluation, facilitation, relationship-building, and leadership development.
Personal Journey: Daughter of a long line of immigrants, people connector, open mindset, translator/interpreter, traveler, baker, salsa dancer.
"If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together."
--African proverb