CHIEF STRATEGY OFFICER

Savannah Keith Gress (she/her) serves as the Chief Strategy Officer for SimplyLead and is the founder of Liberation Collective: a community change collaborative that supports schools, organizations, and individuals in the joyful, nonlinear, deeply human work of getting free from systems of oppression. She uses approaches including sustained dialogue, Relational Design, systems thinking, and storytelling through data in her work to renew relationships and transform unjust systems. 

Savannah has been a dialogue-to-action facilitator in D.C.’s public schools, a non-profit learning and evaluation leader, a fellow at Harvard’s Strategic Data Project Fellowship, and a manager of school district data systems in addition to working in international education in France, Rwanda, and Ecuador. Savannah graduated from the University of Mississippi with undergraduate degrees in International Development and French. She holds a master’s degree in Education Policy and Management from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Savannah lives in Charlotte, North Carolina where she loves hiking the Smokies, soaking up the local art scene, and being an engaged community member working toward justice with her two children and husband.