Elina Alayeva

As Executive Director, Elina sets Springpoint’s strategic direction and oversees programmatic offerings, organizational growth, and new partnerships. As a founding leader of Springpoint, Elina has grown the organization and its offerings to expand reach and impact. She has deep expertise in strategic planning and systems-level alignment to enable successful school efforts, technology-enabled innovation, student-centered school models, and organizational operations.

Prior to joining Springpoint, she designed and implemented a year-long funding focus on innovative secondary school models as a program officer with the Next Generation Learning Challenges, an initiative of EDUCAUSE and The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Previously, she worked at Carnegie Corporation of New York as part of its Urban Education program, focusing on new designs for schools and systems. As a Fulbright Fellow, Elina researched ethno-mathematics in community-run schools on First Nations reserves in Canada. Elina currently serves on the advisory board of CompetencyWorks, a leading digital resource for updates on the K-12 competency learning space.

She holds a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from The Cooper Union and a Master of Arts in Political Science from Columbia University.