Bethany Little, Board Vice Chair

Managing Principal at EducationCounsel, LLC

Bethany Little is a Managing Principal at EducationCounsel, LLC where she supports foundations, nonprofit organizations, states, districts and institutions of higher education to drive systems change for equity and advance improvements in education outcomes from early childhood through higher education. Little has spent twenty years working in government and as an advocate, including the White House, where she was education advisor to President Clinton and Vice President Gore on the Domestic Policy Council, and the U.S. Department of Education. In the U.S. Senate, she served as Chief Education Counsel to the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee under two chairmen, Senators Edward Kennedy and Tom Harkin, and as a legislative aide to Senator Patty Murray. In the non-profit arena, Little was a Managing Partner at America Achieves, where she led the organization's support for state and local superintendents, the Global Learning Network and their parent engagement initiative. She has also served as the vice president for policy and advocacy at the Alliance for Excellent Education and the director of government relations for the Children’s Defense Fund. She serves on the boards of the National Center for Teacher Residencies, the National Equity Project, Veterans Education Success, and Cesar Chavez Public Charter Schools for Public Policy.