Kate Cochran

Managing Director, National Partnership for Student Success

Kate Cochran (she/her/hers) is Managing Director of the National Partnership for Student Success via special assignment to the Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University. Prior to this role, Kate served as Chief of Staff and a founding team member at InnovateEDU, an organization focused on closing opportunity gaps in education through the development of innovative models and tools to serve, inform, and enhance teaching and learning. In this role, Kate managed organization-wide business operations and provided strategic guidance and project management support to organizational leadership across InnovateEDU’s major projects including efforts to bring together diverse, and often disparate, stakeholder groups to address some of education’s most pressing challenges collaboratively. She played an integral role in the design and launch process of a school network and afterschool program in Brooklyn, NY, as well as InnovateEDU’s work to develop and operate an urban education fellowship and launch a community of practice to address talent and human capital challenges in K-12 education. Kate was an Education Pioneers Fellow, and has a Bachelor’s degree from NYU and a Master’s in Public Administration from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University.