Andy Rotherham

Andrew J. Rotherham is a co-founder and senior partner at Bellwether, a national nonprofit that exists to transform education to ensure systemically marginalized young people achieve outcomes that lead to fulfilling lives and flourishing communities. Rotherham leads external relations at Bellwether and also works in the organization’s Policy and Evaluation practice area. He serves on the Virginia Board of Education.

Rotherham occupies a unique place in the U.S. education sector working across silos. He has been appointed to senior policymaking roles by Democrats and Republicans; works at the intersection of research and policy, media, and practice; and is a longtime champion of heterodoxy, empiricism, and pragmatism in education policy.

Rotherham writes the widely-read blog and newsletter Eduwonk.com. In addition to Bellwether, he founded or co-founded two other education organizations and served on the boards of several successful startups in the sector, and is frequently sought out as a board member and adviser. Rotherham served at the White House as special assistant to the president for domestic policy during the Clinton administration, as a member of the Virginia Board of Education appointed by then-Gov. Mark Warner and more recently by Gov. Glenn Youngkin, and as an education columnist for TIME magazine and contributing editor at U.S. News & World Report. He also taught in traditional and experiential settings at the K-12 and college levels.