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Josh Pollack is a Network Advisor at StriveTogether, where he supports cradle-to-career partnerships working to transform systems and put more young people on a path to economic mobility. Josh partners with communities in the Systems Change and Systems Transformation gateways of the StriveTogether Theory of Action™, providing customized supports. Through strategic guidance and connections to tools, data and peer learning opportunities, his work strengthens network member capacity to facilitate collaboration across sectors, align strategies and advance outcomes that enable young people to thrive.

Josh brings more than a decade of experience leading place-based partnerships, shaping policy and improving public education systems. At The Bridgespan Group, he supported nonprofits and foundations with strategic and organizational alignment, executive team development and enhancing pathways to impact — driving over $10 million in philanthropic investments for clients. While serving as executive director in the Stockton Unified School District, Josh led the development of the city’s inaugural Children’s Cabinet, coordinated with city and community partners to create a $4.6 million citywide Children’s Savings Account program, and led cross-district teams to revise graduation requirements and improve college and career readiness rates. Josh has also served as a special assistant to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, worked as a policy advisor at Common Sense Media focused on federal technology policy and taught middle and high school math in New Orleans and Sacramento.

Josh holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a Master of Business Administration from the University of California, Berkeley. He lives in Sacramento, California, with his wife and two children.