Carolyn Hack

Carolyn was formerly the Chief Operating & Financial Officer at Uncommon Schools. She joined Uncommon Schools as Director of Finance in the summer of 2006 and began serving on the leadership team in 2009. In her role, Carolyn oversaw core school support services – finance, real estate, human resources, infrastructure, data management and application support, product solutions, legal and development. During Carolyn’s tenure, Uncommon has expanded to 42 high quality schools in the Northeast and was awarded the 2013 Broad Prize for Public Charter Schools. Prior, she worked at Anchor, Inc. where she was responsible for the financial management of the organization, strategic planning, the development of a new evaluation model, the oversight of a capital renovation project, and fundraising.

Carolyn taught high school mathematics and coached basketball and soccer for five years in Northern California. She received her B.A. in Economics from Johns Hopkins University, M.A. from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Education, and M.B.A from Columbia Business School, where she was elected to Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society and was awarded the faculty-bestowed prize for Nonprofit and Public Management. In addition, Carolyn was selected as a Broad Fellow in 2007 and a Pahara-Aspen Fellow in 2014.