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Heather Staker
Heather Staker is a Senior Research Fellow on education at the Clayton Christensen Institute. Prior to joining the Christensen Institute, Heather served under Governor Pete Wilson’s administration as a member of the California State Board of Education. She was a teaching fellow at Harvard College and a strategy consultant for McKinsey & Company.