Maria Echaveste

Maria Echaveste
Maria Echaveste
President,
Opportunity Institute

Maria Echaveste is the president and CEO of the Opportunity Institute. She oversees executive and administrative duties, including day-to-day activities, development, and budgets; she also directs programmatic work. She has built a distinguished career working as a consultant, lecturer, senior White House official, long-time community leader, and corporate attorney. She received her JD from the University of California, Berkeley.

updated 2020

Contributing topics
Continuous school improvement & support
Education finance
Educational governance & policy
Supporting students’ social-emotional, mental & physical health
Understanding, measuring & improving student outcomes
Contributing initiatives
COVID-19 Recovery
LCFF Research Collaborative
Maria Echaveste in the Media
: Former PACE Faculty Director Christopher Edley Jr.’s Legacy Honored with Berkeley Education Special Event and New Fellowship
: Two Dozen Views on LCFF: Is California’s Funding Law Working and What Could Improve It?
: Getting Our Resource and Educational Equity Bearings
: Unprecedented California Budget to Usher in Sweeping Education Changes
: What Did He Get Right? Reactions to Governor Newsom's K–12 Budget
Publications by Maria Echaveste
PB Hough July 2020
Lead with Equity
What California’s Leaders Must Do Next to Advance Student Learning During COVID-19
On July 17th, 2020, Governor Newsom announced that all K–12 schools in California counties with rising COVID-19 infections would be required to teach remotely. Without a strong focus on improving the quality of remote education at scale, students…