Jenna Lawrence Conway

Jenna leads the Virginia Department of Education’s efforts to ensure all Virginia children have the opportunity to enter kindergarten ready. For more than a decade, Jenna has led transformative efforts in different states to change how we see, fund and manage our birth-to-five, public-private early childhood care and education systems with a keen focus on increasing access and parent choice, improving classroom quality and better engaging families. Results show year over year improvement in teacher-child interactions, leading to more children ready for school. She holds degrees from Yale University, the Stanford University Graduate School of Business and the Broad Education Residency.