Matt Richmond is an education finance and policy consultant who works with nonprofits, foundations, and state governments around the country on issues of K–12 and higher-education finance. He was previously the chief program officer of EdBuild, a thinktank and consulting group focused on reforming the nation’s inequitable and unfair distribution of education resources.
Matt is a former Fulbright fellow placed in the Malawian Office of the President and Cabinet and earlier helped found the Lisha Mtoto Initiative—a schooling and microfinance organization in Nairobi, Kenya. Matt has a Masters in International Development from the University of Pittsburgh and Bachelors in Economics and Political Science from the University of North Carolina.