Heidi Guarino

Heidi Guarino is Secretary/Clerk of the Survivors Say Board of Directors. She is the founder of EdLab Strategies, and is an experienced journalist, education policymaker, communicator and storyteller. She works as a coach, strategist and researcher to help educators and policy makers make bold decisions, tell their stories, and build and strengthen their policies, while ensuring the right stakeholders are heard and engaged along the way. 

Her work is deeply informed by research, best practice, and experience viewing the impacts of education from all angles: as an independent education consultant now, and previously as a senior policy consultant at Education First, as a state-level policymaker and communicator at the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, and as a local, regional and statewide education reporter at the Associated Press. Her work is also influenced by her role as a mother of two boys. 

Originally from Rhode Island, Heidi graduated from Emerson College in Boston. She lives with her family in Salem, Massachusetts.