Erin Raab

Choice-filled Lives Network: Chief Strategy & Impact Officer

Dr. Erin Lynn Raab is passionate about creating a more just, equitable world through education. Both a 'doer' and a 'thinker', she’s been founding organizations and leading teams at non-profits for nearly two decades. Her primary areas of expertise include impact strategy, systems-thinking, empowering program design, development of resilient organizations and happy, effective teams, and creation of meaningful evaluation systems.

Erin earned her Ph.D. at Stanford's Graduate School of Education where her work focused on how we might transform our schooling system from one organized for competition and test scores to one that fosters human flourishing, democracy, and collective liberation. She is the Co-Founder of REENVISIONED, a movement to redefine the purpose of school while centering the voices of young people, families, and educators in the creation of our new collective visions.

Previously, Erin served as Vice President of Research & Evaluation at The Future Project in New York, and she was the Founder & Executive Director of the KwaNdengezi Education Centre and was a Senior Researcher at MIET Africa with the National Department of Basic Education, in South Africa.

She’s recently moved from the Bay Area back home to the Twin Cities, MN, and is excited to be learning more about the philanthropic, education, and youth development landscape of her home state. Outside of work she can be found hiking all the trails, playing with small and young people, traveling and learning languages, running, or hosting community gatherings.