will.packer

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Will Packer

will.packer
Strategist
Avalanche Insights
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Will — an educator, organizer, creative, and policy nerd — has spent over a decade helping other humans develop themselves and exploring the power of true stories to make our world fair, for once. Before joining Avalanche Insights, Will was Director of Story and Strategy for Vot-ER, which empowers healthcare workers to get their patients and colleagues ready to vote, researched policy for Arena, an organization that convenes, trains, and supports the next generation of Democratic candidates and campaign strategists, and directed content and production for Resistance School, a free online video training platform for political and community organizing. For nearly eight years, Will worked in high-poverty public charter schools in New York City. He developed teachers, managed lobbying efforts, designed and led “applied civics” and “personalized math” programs, and taught hundreds of 7th graders mathematics. Experienced in both the legislative and executive branches of government and on both state and national campaigns, Will began his career as a field organizer for the 2008 Obama Campaign in Columbus, Ohio, where his turf turned blue for the first time since LBJ. A native of Manhattan, Will holds an M.P.A. from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, an M.B.A. from The Wharton School, an M.A. in Teaching Mathematics from Relay Graduate School of Education, and a A.B. in political science from his beloved Brown University. Will's oldest interest is music — he's released two albums with his band Night School — and his newest is tennis.


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