Christopher Leake is the National Vice President for Data, Reporting and Insights at Teach For America.  His division is responsible for organization-wide reporting, analytics, applications administration, strategic consulting and data governance.  His professional experience spans multiple education contexts. Most recently, he was the Director of Teacher and Principal Evaluation with the School District of Philadelphia.  Prior to this position, he was a Harvard Strategic Data Project Fellow for College and Career Readiness with the New York State Education Department, under former Commissioner John B. King.   In this role, Christopher led the research and policy agenda that culminated in the State's roll-out of the new Multiple Pathways graduation standards. He also worked as a researcher at MDRC, where he was the lead analyst and technical appendix author on numerous policy reports.  Noted for his research on the role educational outcomes play in employment markets, this past year he was invited to give a Ted talk on this subject at Tedx Riga in Latvia. Christopher completed his undergraduate studies at Columbia University and The Juilliard School and trained at the University of Missouri, Cambridge University and University of Pennsylvania for formal graduate studies in Economics.