Berkeley School of Education

Maria Echaveste

Maria Echaveste is Special Advisor for Children Now, a policy, research, and advocacy organization focused on the health, education, and welfare of children. She joined the University of California’s Berkeley School of Law as a Lecturer after co-founding a strategic and policy consulting group, serving as a senior White House and U.S. Department of Labor official.  Maria is also a Senior Fellow with the Law School’s Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Race, Ethnicity and Diversity. Previously, Echaveste was the CEO of the Opportunity Institute and served on the Advisory Board for the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence. She has also co authored multiple reports with Policy Analysis for California (PACE).

Echaveste is a member of the Advisory Board for the Goldman School of Public Policy, Board of Directors of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, the National Campaign to Prevent Teenage Pregnancy, and Mi Familia Vota (an organization focused on increasing Latino civic participation).  She also serves as a member of the Advisory Board of the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Mexico Institute. She recently completed serving as a member of the Board of Directors of CARE, a humanitarian organization fighting global poverty and the Alliance for Excellent Education, focused on education reform issues.