Pagee Cheung is the co-founder of MESA Charter High Schools, a network of standalone charter high schools in Brooklyn, NY. Since opening its doors in 2013, MESA has celebrated a 94% graduation rate and set academic standards that sent students to Ivy Leagues and other elite institutions while leading cutting edge work in career-connected learning and postsecondary pathways. MESA founded Alumni Lab in 2021, a program that now helps over 200 opportunity youth from district and charter schools across the city access career mobility by providing them with the necessary skills to successfully re-enroll back into college or enter workforce programs. Pagee Cheung is also the founder of the College Persistence Coalition, which runs design labs between K-12 and higher education leaders to pilot innovative solutions that increase college persistence and graduation rates. She has authored articles in the 74 Million, Chalkbeat, and Crain’s. She received her Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and Biotechnology through the University of Southern California and her Master of Arts in Secondary Mathematics Education through Teachers College, Columbia University.