Romy Drucker

Romy Drucker is director of the education program at the Walton Family Foundation, where she oversees its initiatives to improve K-12 education for all of the nation’s children by empowering parents with quality options. She also leads team operations and grantmaking strategy. Drucker previously co-founded and led The 74, an award-winning nonprofit news organization focused on education. Before that, she worked at the New York City Department of Education on then-mayor Mike Bloomberg’s and chancellor Joel Klein’s Children First reforms. There, Drucker was chief of staff for the Division of Portfolio Planning and, prior to that, special assistant to Klein and deputy to the CEO of The Fund for Public Schools, which serves the city’s 1.1 million students.