Julio Chow-Gamboa was previously a Senior Program Officer at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative leading portfolios focused on educator recruitment, capacity, and wellbeing. Prior to that, Julio was the Program Strategy, Data, and Operations Lead for the Summit Learning Program. In that role he partnered with other program leaders to create near and long term strategies, and led the design of systems to enable their successful execution. Before Summit Learning, he was the Director of Operations at Brooke Roslindale Charter School in Massachusetts. There he and his team supported teachers and students through facilities, food service, transportation, health programs, and technology infrastructure. In his prior consulting experience, he supported venture diligence for the Innovative Schools Team at NewSchools Venture Fund. Julio began his career as an English teacher at Oakland International High School (OIHS) in Oakland, California, a full-service community school within the Oakland Unified School District. He currently serves on the boards of Soccer Without Borders, The Teaching Well, and 99 Church.

Julio received his bachelor’s degree from Princeton where he majored in German: media and aesthetics, and in the fall of 2025 will be pursing his master’s at Stanford as part of the Policy, Organization, and Leadership Studies program.