Guest Commentary: Gisele Huff on Philanthropy and the Free Market in Education

People in the education technology community know Gisele Huff. She is the executive director of the Jaquelin Hume Foundation in San Francisco. After a decade in the business world, she earned a PhD in political science, with a concentration in political philosophy, at Columbia University. She has taught at Golden Gate University, Dominican College, and San Francisco University High School, where she also served as the director of development for 12 years. Huff is currently chairman of the board of Innosight Institute and treasurer of the board of the State Policy Network.
Huff was recently interviewed by the Center for Social Innovation, which along with the Stanford Graduate School of Business, is sponsoring "Social Innovation Live," a series of interviews with people who are catalysts of change.
Huff talks about the Hume Foundation's focus on education reform and how technology will dramatically shift K-12 education. She also talks about the role the average citizen can play in this reform movement.
Click here to listen to the 25-minute conversation.