Our Team

The NewSchools team draws on extensive experience from across the education, business, policy and nonprofit sectors to help find, fund and support teams of educators and innovators.

Charlie Wolfson

Charlie Wolfson

Charlie Wolfson is Executive Director of Arrow Impact, a newly established foundation focused on addressing barriers to economic opportunity for low-income families.  Charlie previously worked at Alliance College-Ready Public Schools, a nonprofit charter management organization in Los Angeles, and before that at Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), a nonprofit community development financial institution in New York.  Charlie is a graduate of the Broad Residency in Urban Education and is an Education Pioneers alum. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in economics and political science from Duke University and a Masters in Business Administration and a Masters of Arts in education from Stanford University.   Charlie lives in Oakland, CA and serves on the board of Tipping Point Community.