Kate Cochran

Managing Director, Partnership for Student Success

Kate Cochran (she/her/hers) is Managing Director of the Partnership for Student Success via special assignment to the Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University. Prior to this role, Kate served as Managing Director of the National Partnership for Student Success — a public-private partnership between the U.S. Department of Education, AmeriCorps, and the Johns Hopkins Everyone Graduates Center that supported the fields of education, youth development, and national service to recruit, train, and support hundreds of thousands of additional adults in evidence-based student support roles. Before her work on the National Partnership for Student Success, Kate served as Chief of Staff and a founding team member at InnovateEDU, an organization focused on addressing pressing challenges in K-12 education and forging uncommon alliances through policy, practice, and technology. In this role, Kate managed organization-wide business operations and provided strategic guidance and project management support to organizational leadership across InnovateEDU’s major projects including efforts to bring together disparate stakeholder groups to address some of education’s most pressing challenges collaboratively. She played an integral role in the design and launch process of a school network and afterschool program in Brooklyn, NY, as well as InnovateEDU’s work to develop and operate an urban education fellowship and launch a community of practice to address talent and human capital challenges in K-12 education. Kate was an Education Pioneers Fellow, and has a Bachelor’s degree from NYU and a Master’s in Public Administration from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University.