Biography

Erin McMahon is a Senior Advisor to the Commissioner for the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and SEcondary Education. In this capacity, Erin works on return to school initiatives due to COVID-19 . Erin is the former Chief Academic Officer of the KIPP Foundation, responsible for ensuring that KIPP regions made significant progress toward 2025 academic goals. Professor McMahon came to KIPP from Denver Public Schools, where she led the Academics and Innovation teams. She co-led an Early Literacy Strategy district-wide that resulted in a third of DPS schools increasing their school performance rating between 2016 and 2017, the highest growth in one year in DPS history. Prior to joining DPS, Erin led the turnaround of The Henry Street School for International Studies, in Manhattan. Erin started her career in education through Teach For America, in an elementary school in Washington, DC. She moved from the classroom to management consulting with Ernst and Young. After business school, Erin worked for City Year in Boston and was selected for the fifth cohort of New Leaders for New Schools in New York City. She holds a BA from Yale University, a MS Ed from Pace University, and a MBA from Cornell. Professor McMahon is also a graduate of Relay Graduate School of Education’s Leverage Leadership Institute, an ICF-accredited Certified Professional Coach, and last year was selected for the Fall 2019 cohort of the Pahara-Aspen Fellows program.