Jean S. Desravines.
The New York City-based Wallace Foundation has appointed Jean S. Desravines as president, effective on September 1. Desravines will succeed Will Miller, who will step down after nearly 14 years at the research foundation, which supports education and the arts. Desravines is currently the CEO of New Leaders, a national nonprofit that works to develop transformational school leaders and support student achievement. Under Desravines’ 14 years at the helm, New Leaders has grown in impact and scale, expanded to support district and teacher leaders, and launched partnerships with Morehouse College and Clark Atlanta University, historically Black institutions, along with Bank Street Graduate School of Education, to create one of the nation’s largest programs serving aspiring principals who are representative of their communities. Desravines grew up in the Bedford-Stuyvesant and East Flatbush neighborhoods of Brooklyn, New York. Before New Leaders, he occupied several executive leadership roles with New York City Public Schools. Desravines serves on for-profit, foundation, and nonprofit boards. Desravines earned a bachelor of arts degree in history from St. Francis College and a master’s degree in public administration from New York University.
