Ashley Beckner is a former elementary school operator and recovering finance professional who joined Imaginable Futures and Omidyar Network to drive progress toward the vital importance of early experiences and brain development as the foundation for lifelong success. Prior, Ashley built and ran the non-instructional side of Bricolage Academy, an innovative, socioeconomically diverse, startup charter elementary school in New Orleans, Louisiana, as its founding director of finance, strategy, and operations. Ashley also spent a summer as an Education Pioneers Fellow with the Silicon Schools Fund. Ashley began her career at Morgan Stanley as an investment banking analyst focused on the real estate sector and as a special projects associate working on a series of internal company projects.