Helen Baxendale

Experience

1. Chief of Staff, VP Strategy and Analytics

   Great Hearts Academies

   Oct 2021 — Present · Phoenix, AZ, US

   Great Hearts Academies is a non-profit public charter school organization dedicated to building a national network of tuition-free, academically rigorous, classical, liberal arts primary, middle, and high schools. We are fueled by a passion to reinvent American public education and to deliver that education far and wide. Great Hearts now serves approximately students in Arizona, Texas, and Louisiana. This network prepares its graduates for success at the most highly selective colleges and universities in the nation, and to be leaders in creating a more philosophical, humane, and just society. Great Hearts’ public academies surpass the best public and private school options in academic outcomes, student moral formation, and comprehensive extra-curricular participation. The ultimate goal of the organization is to graduate “great-hearted” young men and women who possess a sense of destiny and purpose that is directed to the service of the greater good. “Classical Education, Revolutionary Schools.”

Education

• The Australian National University

  Bachelor of Philosophy (Arts) (Hons), Political Science and Modern History

  2007 — 2011

• University of Oxford

  DPhil (PhD), Public Policy

• Yale University

  International Alliance of Research Universities Summer Program, Foreign Policy

  2009 — 2009

• University of Oxford

  Master of Philosophy (MPhil), Comparative Social Policy

• University of Melbourne

  Masters of Teaching (Teach for Australia) (Secondary Education)

  2011 — 2013

Skills

• Social Policy
• Government
• Education Policy
• Higher Education Policy
• Political Communication
• Data Analysis
• Public Policy
• Strategic Communications
• Academic Tutoring
• Policy Analysis
• Political Campaigns
• Research
• Teaching
• Politics
• Political Science