Vice President, State Leadership & Policy Development
Margaret Horn joined Achieve in February 2010. Prior to joining Achieve, Margaret served as the chief education policy advisor to Governor Phil Bredesen, of Tennessee, from 2008 to 2010. She led Tennessee's involvement in the American Diploma Project and the College & Career-Ready Policy Institute, and most recently coordinated Tennessee's Race to the Top proposal, which resulted in new laws in the Volunteer State. Margaret worked in a variety of roles for Governor Bredesen, beginning with his first election in 2002.
Before joining state government, Margaret worked for Bredesen in the private sector as product content manager for Bredex Corp., an educational software company that was acquired by McGraw-Hill Education. She worked for several years in the national and community service movement as Tennessee's AmeriCorps program officer, and as executive director for a higher-education service learning program based at Duke University's Center for Documentary Studies.
An Alabama native, Margaret holds a bachelor's degree in anthropology from Vanderbilt University and a master's in medical anthropology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She lives in Washington, DC.
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