Kelly Garnes-Pages began as an English and history teacher after receiving her bachelor’s degree in history from the University of Virginia and her Ed.M. in administration, planning and social policy from Harvard University. She became the founding history department chair at KIPP NJ, a network of charter schools, where she supervised and coached humanities teachers and wrote the humanities curriculum. Garnes-Pages then earned her MBA at Columbia Business School as a Margaret Greenawalt Scholar and later joined Citibank, where she provided analytics and financial modeling to expand business lines. Since she has served in C-level positions at educational organizations, including Ascend Public Charter Schools, which serves close to 5,500 students and 800 employees. Garnes-Pages is now CFO at the Gill St. Bernard’s School and also serves as a lead consultant of Guided Leadership, a boutique consulting firm that coaches new managers.