Will Crossley is the president of The Piney Woods School. Trained in both education and civil rights, in 2013 he was appointed by the President of the United States as senior advisor in the Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Education. Prior to this appointment, Will was chief counsel for the Democratic National Committee, where his work included managing voting rights litigation on behalf of the national party. Formerly, he was a senior litigation attorney at WilmerHale. Earlier in his career, Will served as a federal judicial law clerk to the Honorables Damon J. Keith and Julian Abele Cook, Jr. Immediately following law school, he was awarded the Barton Postgraduate Legal Fellowship at the Barton Child Law and Policy Center at Emory University School of Law. Will holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Chicago, a Master of Education from Harvard University, and a JD from the University of Virginia. Before his legal career began, Will was a policy analyst in the Georgia Governor’s Office, an educational researcher, and an elementary public school teacher.