Genevieve Cheng is the Regional Director of School Operations at Vertex Education, where she leads and coach school operations leaders across multiple campuses in Texas to ensure schools run safely, efficiently, consistently, and in support of student achievement. Prior to joining Vertex, she served as the Senior Chief of Staff to the President at IDEA Public Schools, where she partnered with executive leaders to translate strategy into action by leading organizational planning and change management, executive decision-making, cross-functional initiatives, and enterprise-wide operating rhythms across the multi-state public charter school network. Genevieve also served as assistant principal of operations at KIPP Austin Beacon Prep Middle School. She honed her data chops and supported school system leaders in making transformative shifts in resources, structures, and practices as a 2013 Education Pioneers analyst fellow and associate consultant at Education Resource Strategies, a consulting firm in Watertown, Massachusetts. She began her career in education as a 2006 Teach For America corps member, where she taught ninth and tenth grade science in the northside of Houston. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Neuroscience from Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and a Master of Public Health from Washington University in St. Louis. Genevieve is originally from New York’s Chinatown. In her free time, she loves to travel, attend live shows, cheer on her favorite sports teams, create new cocktails, and try the newest restaurants in Austin, Texas, where she currently resides.