John Gulla became the executive director of the Edward E. Ford Foundation in 2013. E.E. Ford, in its 66 years of making grants, has distributed more than $125,000,000 through more than 2,300 grants to more than 900 different independent schools and associations throughout the country. Before joining E.E. Ford, Gulla was head of school at The Blake School and prior to that held administrative and teaching positions at Riverdale Country School in the Bronx, Isidore Newman in New Orleans and St. Ann’s in Brooklyn. A graduate of Teachers College, Columbia University and Amherst College, he grew up the son of two public school teachers outside Boston. Gulla helped found Fund for Teachers and has served on its board since its inception, having chaired it for many years. He has also serves, or has served, on a number of other boards including High Mountain Institute, ISACS, MAIS, Milkweed Editions, the Minnesota chapter of the ACLU.