Romy Drucker
Education Program Director, Walton Family Foundation
Romy Drucker is director of the education program at the Walton Family Foundation, supporting communities and families to ensure students thrive academically and socially and are supported in finding the career paths and lives of their choosing. She previously co-founded and led The 74, an award-winning nonprofit news organization focused on education. Before that, Drucker worked at the New York City Department of Education on then-mayor Mike Bloomberg’s and former chancellor Joel Klein’s Children First reforms. There, she 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. (The Walton Family Foundation is a 2023 Festival Underwriter)
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