Corey Scholes

Corey is the Chief of Staff for EL Education. In this role, she sets and executes the learning agenda for the executive team. She leads the Executive Office and manages the team. She also coordinates all the Board of Directors meetings. She serves as the Secretary of the Board. For a decade, Corey served as the Director of Education at the Kauffman Foundation, Corey advised on strategic education program initiatives. She helped start the Ewing Marion Kauffman School, a public charter school, where she served as interim CEO during the school’s launch. Corey has also developed and executed the foundation’s strategy around attracting, developing, and retaining talent among Kansas City schools. Her team is responsible for bringing programs like City Year, KCTR, and Kansas City Plus to Kansas City to make the talent pipeline more robust and able to support the Foundation’s other K-12 investments. She is the founder of the Amplify conference for educators of color. She helped start the foundation’s internal race and equity work and helped bring to life Promise 54’s DEI accelerator with an initial investment and strategic support and planning.