Christine Campbell is a Senior Research Analyst and Policy Director at the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE). She leads the Center's Portfolio School Districts Project, which studies and advises more than 30 urban districts managing a portfolio of schools including some run by charter authorizers and other independent entities. She has researched and analyzed district-wide reforms and the role of superintendent leadership and central office operations, and has written teaching cases for The Broad Institute for School Boards. Ms. Campbell has led work on school choice and the charter sector, studying the ways districts and traditional public schools can respond to competition. She is an expert on charter school leadership, from recruitment and preparation to retention and succession planning. Ms. Campbell is on the board of the Policy Innovators in Education (PIE) Network, which links state education advocacy organizations with national experts in policy development, and she served as a reviewer for the federal Race to the Top Competition. She is co-author with Paul Hill of It Takes A City (Brookings Press, 2000) Strife and Progress(Brookings Press, 2012), a book about portfolio districts and the changing education landscape. She is the author of numerous reports and commentaries and a regular presenter at national education research conferences. Prior to joining CRPE, she was a GED Coordinator for teen parents at Rainier Vista Housing Project and a job skills trainer at the Seattle Indian Center. She also worked at Starbucks when they numbered just a few quaint neighborhood cafes.Ms. Campbell holds a B.A. in English from Villanova University and an M.P.A. from the University of Washington.She lives in Seattle, WA with her husband and three rowdy boys. She empathizes greatly with the daily challenges that face their teachers.