Claire Anderson

Claire Anderson is executive director and co-founder of Ripple Effect. She taught elementary math and science at KIPP Central City Primary School for 7 years and was a curriculum fellow for KIPP New Orleans. During that time, she also served as a science instructional coach. Her curriculum work includes yearlong curriculum for elementary mathematics and NGSS-aligned science, as well as water literacy curriculum for Ripple Effect and Station 15, a documentary film about New Orleans’s water issues. In 2019, she helped develop a teacher-facing curriculum for KIPP Schools, which serves over 40,000 students nationwide. Currently, she is serving as an education consultant for the Obama Presidential Center. Previously, she worked for the New York Department of Education, and in content and business development for Ralph Appelbaum Associates.