Staff

Chief Program Officer, Education Post

Chicago, Illinois

J. Gordon Wright is the Chief Program Officer for Education Post. He owns the strategic direction of Education Post’s programmatic work, including oversight of platforms, editorial content and the continuing development of the organization’s network of blogger activists.

Gordon has been with Education Post since its founding in 2014. Before joining Education Post, he was Communications Director for Future Is Now, a nonprofit that sought to organize and support teachers taking action to improve their schools and unions. He was previously Director of New Media at Erikson Institute, the nation’s premiere graduate school for child development, and managed the website and electronic communications for the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. He also spent many years working in higher education, including management roles at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the London School of Economics.

Gordon grew up in Austin, Texas, and went on to earn a bachelor’s in psychology from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. He remained on the East Coast working as a musician and web designer before moving to Chicago to start a family. He is married to his college sweetheart, an educator, and they have two young children who attend their neighborhood public school in Evanston, Illinois.