Chris Stewart is President and CEO of the Wayfinder Foundation, a nonprofit that invests in grassroots anti-poverty and education activism.
Prior to that he built relationships in urban communities as Director of External Affairs at Education Post, a public education advocacy nonprofit. Before that, Chris was the founding Executive Director of the African American Leadership Forum (AALF), a cross-sector network of Black leaders working to develop and implement an urban policy agenda across five northwest states.
In 2007 Chris was elected to the Minneapolis Public Schools Board of Education. In that role, he helped establish the Office of New Schools, a department of the Minneapolis Public Schools that implemented school reform strategies.
Chris blogs and tweets under the name Citizen Stewart and publishes at Citizen.Education. He lives in rural Minnesota.
