Jon Schnur is the Chief Executive Officer of America Achieves — a national nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing economic mobility and economic growth. Last year, Jon and America Achieves — with National Governors’ Association (NGA) Chair Kevin Stitt (R-Oklahoma) and NGA Vice-Chair Wes Moore (D-Maryland) — launched the Good Jobs Economy initiative to work alongside governors, states, and local regions to connect residents to good jobs while helping employers access skilled talent. The goal is to help over a million Americans reach and stay in the middle class by accessing good jobs and advancing their careers in a rapidly changing, AI-disrupted economy. With Jon’s leadership, America Achieves has launched and scaled successful nonprofit and public policy initiatives that have impacted economic mobility – including Merit America, Matriculate, CollegePoint, Results for America, GripTape, and others. America Achieves also advances federal and state public policy in workforce development, higher education, career pathways, K-12 education, and inclusive economic growth.

Previously, Jon was Mike Bloomberg’s principal education advisor for his philanthropic work and has since continued to serve as a senior advisor to Bloomberg Philanthropies. Jon founded New Leaders, the national non-profit that has recruited and developed thousands of leaders serving millions of public school students across the U.S., and served as its CEO from 2000 until 2011. Jon has served under two presidents - President Clinton and President Obama. During the Clinton administration, Jon served as a senior education policy advisor in the White House to Vice President Gore and U.S. Secretary of Education Dick Riley. He also served as co-chair of education policy for Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign and as a senior advisor to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. Jon is an active board member of New Leaders and the national nonprofit Accelerate, which he launched from America Achieves to advance high-dosage tutoring for hundreds of thousands of students nationwide.

Jon is from Wisconsin and currently resides in Montclair, New Jersey, with his wife, Elisa, and their three children. Matthew is 21 and a rising junior at Duke; he has started a tech company with a classmate to measure and improve cognitive autonomy while using AI for entry-level talent, starting in consulting and law firms. Elizabeth just completed an international gap year in Cape Town and Peru and will attend the University of Edinburgh or McGill University this fall. Philip is a rising high school junior and is a passionate travel soccer player who co-created a soccer YouTube channel with millions of views.