Nolan Highbaugh, Board Chair (Email)
Currently General Counsel & Corporate Secretary for BookNook Inc., Nolan has provided legal counsel to education management organizations for over two decades. Prior to joining BookNook, Nolan was General Counsel & Corporate Secretary for the KIPP Foundation; during his time with KIPP, he was a key leader in the execution of KIPP school network expansion from 8 to 270 schools in eighteen years representing an increase in students served from approximately 1,300 to 113,000 in twenty states and the District of Columbia. Before entering law school, Nolan was a Budget and Policy Analyst for both the Chief Administrative Office of Los Angeles County and the Office of Mayor Willie L. Brown Jr. in the City and County of San Francisco.  Nolan attended U.C. Berkeley (Go Bears!) where he earned a Bachelor’s degree in International Political Economy and a Master’s in Public Policy. He earned his JD from Stanford Law School and is a member of the California State Bar Association. Finally, and most importantly, Nolan is very proud to have been born and raised in Vallejo, CA where he returns on a regular basis to visit family and conduct ‘VIP’ tours of the city for friends.

Shannon Stockdale, Board Member (Email)
Shannon Stockdale serves as the Chief People and Learning Officer of Lit, a K-12 literacy consulting organizations whose mission is to ensure every kid, everywhere is a reader. As the Chief People and Learning Officer, Shannon leads people strategy with a focus on equity and research across workforce planning and organizational design, talent acquisition, leadership development and talent management. In addition, Shannon leads the knowledge management, data insights, service design and program evaluation functions to ensure that Lit is able to systematically apply learnings for greater impact. Prior to joining Lit, she served as the Vice President, Talent at the KIPP Foundation where she led the KIPP network’s talent strategy across a network of 250+ schools. Under Shannon’s leadership, KIPP implemented a research-based approach to principal development that resulted in 15% increase in Black/Latinx principals and a 25% increase in School Leader retention rates. She has also served as a Director of Operations at KIPP S.T.A.R. College Prep Charter School, a middle school in Harlem and as the Special Projects Manager at The Broad Center for the Management of School Systems. Shannon started her career as a management consultant at Katzenbach Partners, where she developed business strategy for large corporations and non-profits. She holds a B.A. in political science from Yale University and a master’s in public administration from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University. Shannon resides in Berkeley, California with her husband and her three rambunctious children.