TRANSFORMING LEARNING. TRANSFORMING LIVES
Meet Our Team
Senior Leadership
Jillian Juman
Jillian Juman brings over 20 years of experience in education to Envision Education. Throughout her career, she has committed to providing underserved communities with access to quality education and ensuring educational equity.
Jillian has worked to integrate school communities and provide opportunities for global learning to benefit students and their families. With a proven track record of raising student achievement, Ms. Juman has successfully led networks in the development of strong academic learning practices, leadership development, and building sustainable communities of learning that are inclusive and innovative.
She started her career as a classroom teacher and has held various school leadership roles both in New York City and Los Angeles, including managing instructional superintendent and principal. She holds a B.A. in Psychology and B.A. in Anthropology of Dance from the University of California, Santa Cruz, an M.A in Dance and Dance Education from New York University, and an M. Ed. in Educational Administration from Bank Street College.
Jillian Juman
Lizzie Choi Bio Coming Soon
Elizabeth Choi
Simone Green Bio Coming
Simone Green
Elizabeth Raji-Greig
Elizabeth is joining the Envision team as the Assistant Chief Academic and Continuous Improvement Officer. With nearly two decades of experience in education, Liz has worked to increase and support educational equity through her roles as a teacher, school leader, regional leader, and coach. Before joining Envision, Liz served as an Associate Director of Academics with KIPP Public Schools Northern California. There she supported the region’s focus on early literacy skills and more student-specific instruction and analysis systems. Liz is a deep believer that schools can meet the spoken and unspoken promises they make to their students’ families when their decisions honor the critical roles social-emotional learning, family inclusion, content internalization, and staff development play in student engagement and growth. Liz holds an Ed.M. in Administration and Supervision from National Louis University in Chicago and a B.A. in English with a concentration in African, African-American Studies from Kenyon College in Ohio.
Elizabeth Raji-Greig
Justin Wells
As the founding English teacher of Envision’s first school, Justin helped develop Envision’s graduation portfolio and defense system. For six years, he led teacher teams in the design and implementation of semester-long, multi-disciplinary projects that drew recognition, media coverage, and research attention from ABC News, KQED, Stanford University, the Oracle Education Foundation, and the Partnership for 21st Century Skills. Recently, Justin served as the associate research director for performance assessment at the Stanford Center for Assessment, Learning, and Equity (SCALE), where, among other Common Core transition projects, he designed the prototype performance tasks for the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC). Justin recently co-authored, along with Bob Lenz and Sally Kingston, a new book about the Envision education model: Transforming Schools Using Project-Based Learning, Performance Assessment, and Common Core Standards (Wiley, January 2015).
Justin Wells
School Leaders
Phillip Chardon
I believe it is a political act to provide the best possible education with the highest expectations to all students. I have fulfilled this mission as a history teacher in the Bay Area and Los Angeles, and currently work as the Vice-Principal of Student Support at CAT. I grew up in the Bay Area and attended UC Santa Barbara where I received a degree in History and a Masters in Education. I have since completed a second Masters in Education Leadership. In my personal life, I enjoy politics, graffiti art, photography and traveling. I married my college sweetheart, and we have a beautiful 4 year-old daughter . We currently reside in San Francisco, CA.
One thing that I’m proud of in my work at CAT is leading two clubs, the Young Men of Distinction, a club aimed at supporting young men in leadership and development, and the Muslim Student Association, a club for students interested in the rich culture of Islam.
Phillip Chardon
THOMAS KADELBACH
POOJA MAHARAJ
ALYSON STOUT
The Envision Team
Chris Angotti
JORDAN BRICK
SHADAYA BRIDGES
OMAR BRYAN
KELLEY CARRASCO
ROYCE CONNER
LEONEL COSIO
JOHN ERICSON
CAREY FIGUEROA
Niloy Gangopadhyay
Niloy has spent the last twenty plus years combating the inequities in public education. He has served as a systems, school, and non profit leader. Previously he served as the Executive Director of Special Populations at Texas Education Agency, where he led the state’s programming for highly mobile & at-risk, English learners, and gifted & talented students. Before that he was the co-founder and executive director of Success Preparatory Academy, a K-8th grade charter school in the Treme/Bienville Corridor for ten years. Before moving to New Orleans, he was the founding principal of Cleveland Lighthouse Community School. He also served as the Director of Special Projects at Excellence Charter School of the Uncommon Schools network in Brooklyn, New York. His initial entry into urban education was as a 2002 Teach For America (TFA) corps member in San Jose, California where he taught 4th grade. He received his B.A. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Ed.M. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
NILOY Gangopadhyay
ROILYN GRAVES
KEIRRA HALL
DAVID HAUPERT
JA'NAY JENKINS
IAN JOHNSON
COURTNEY KATEN
JOEL KEY
Anna Kogan
LUCY LUJANO
RACHEL MAIDA
bio coming