Eva Mejia

Eva Mejia is the executive director of IDEO, where she heads the education portfolio as well as systems and strategy design. Always seeking to learn and improve life outcomes for disenfranchised communities, Mejia has served in many capacities across pre-K-16 systems. She began her career in direct services as a social worker and coordinator for parent engagement, mentorship, and tutoring programs, where she developed her skills as a strengths-based social worker, bridging divides across systems and communities to support young people and their families. Mejia has served as director of networked improvement science for the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and as the chief strategy officer at Big Picture Learning.

She holds an Ed.L.D. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, an M.A. in Sociology from Stanford University, and a B.A. in Psychology from Stanford University.