Our Team

Over the last 25 years Kyle Hartung, Ed.D., has worked as a teacher, leader, consultant, and researcher in public K–12 systems and higher-education settings. Kyle currently serves as an associate vice president in Jobs for the Future’s (JFF) Education Practice where he leads strategy and initiatives, including the Pathways to Prosperity Network, with federal, state, and regional leaders and organizations to design, strengthen, and scale equitable solutions that reimagine the ways in which people experience and move through education and workforce development systems. He is a co-author of The Big Blur and a regular participant in the ongoing conversation about equity, education, and the future of work in the media and at events around the country. Prior to joining JFF, Kyle worked as a researcher with Learning Innovations Laboratory (LILa) at Harvard’s Project Zero, with Envision Schools (in the SF Bay Area), and at Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom High School in the Bronx, NY, where he began his career as a teacher. His skills and areas of expertise include education to career pathways, cross-sector partnerships, work-based learning, secondary and postsecondary alignment, and systems leadership and change. Kyle has a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Theatre and Performance Studies) from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, a Master of Science (Teaching) from The New School, and Master and research Doctorate degrees from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.