Global Education & Technology Leadership Expert; Executive Director at Aspen Institute Socrates Program; Founder of TechTown Foundation
Cordell Carter, II Biography
Cordell Carter II is a leader in global education, diversity, equity, and inclusion, with more than two decades of experience spanning the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. Carter has served as executive director of the Aspen Institute Socrates Program, a global education forum, and as founding director of the Aspen Institute Project on Belonging, focusing on fostering organizational cultures where all individuals have equitable opportunities. In these roles, he curates over three dozen off-the-record leadership seminars annually in capital cities worldwide, engaging more than 1,000 leaders each year. Carter also founded Festival of the Diaspora, a Colombia-based event convening diasporic communities across the Americas.
Carter’s career includes leadership positions with TechTown Foundation, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle Public Schools, Business Roundtable, National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, and IBM. At Business Roundtable, he served as vice president of public policy, leading the Education & Workforce and Information & Technology Committees and guiding the CEO association’s cybersecurity advocacy strategy, which contributed to the passage of bipartisan cybersecurity legislation in the House. Carter also founded TechTown Foundation, which provides technology education to K-12 students and led to his recognition by the White House as a Champion of Change for Computer Science Education.
At the Aspen Institute, Carter has worked to shift the national conversation on racial equity and inclusion from compliance to belonging, organizing two annual summits: "Visionaries Summit: The Future of Belonging in America" and Festival of the Diaspora. He has delivered keynote speeches, facilitated roundtables, and moderated panels globally, and advises leaders and boards through Expectant Advisory on inclusion and belonging strategies. Carter serves on the President’s Commission on White House Fellowships and advises SkillStorm on developing technology-training academies in underserved communities.
Carter’s recognitions include an Eisenhower Fellowship to China, designation as a White House Champion of Change for Computer Science Education, inclusion in "40 under 40" lists by business and civic organizations in Washington State and Tennessee, a University of Notre Dame Law School Alumni of the Year award, selection as a Robert Bosch Foundation Fellow for Young American Leaders, and a Broad Foundation Resident in Urban Education. Carter holds a J.D. from University of Notre Dame Law School, a Master of Science in Public Policy and Management Studies from Carnegie Mellon University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from University of Washington, supporting his multidisciplinary approach to leadership and social change.
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