Our Founders

Heather Weston

Social impact expert who has founded and scaled institutions

  • Case Commons, COO/co-founder

  • Hats & Ladders, Inc., COO/director

  • Cesar Chavez Public Charter School for Public Policy, co-founder

  • JustFix, Board Chair 

MPA, NYU; BA, Tufts University

Charles Simon

Driving change at the intersection of public policy and law

  • Case Commons, Director of Policy and General Counsel

  • U.S. Department of Justice, Deputy Associate Attorney General

  • UNAIDS, Deputy Chief of Staff 

  • Davis Polk & Wardwell, Associate 

JD, Univ.of Chicago Law School; BA, Yale

Siena Delaney

Recent graduate motivated by the desire to see the country’s elected officials better reflect the politics of younger generations

  • Double major in Political Philosophy and Writing & Rhetoric

  • Experience in communications and client services in the for-profit and nonprofit sector.

BA, Syracuse University