Ranjana Reddy

Ranjana is City Fund’s Vice President of Schools and Strategy, where she works to ensure that the organization’s investment strategy—across and within cities—achieves its goal of providing all students with access to high-quality schools.  

With 20 years of experience as an educator, founder, and systems leader, Ranjana has dedicated her career to educational equity. Most recently, as KIPP NJ’s Managing Director of Operations, Ranjana led growth, financial planning, enrollment, and operations for the network’s 19 schools, serving 8000+ students in Newark and Camden. In this role, she led the expansion of KIPP’s Camden region, opening 3 new school facilities ($80M+) and growing the region to serve more than 10% of the city’s students. 

Ranjana began her career as a middle school science teacher in the South Bronx and then helped found KIPP’s second Newark middle school, Rise Academy. Later, as the Priority Projects Manager at the Connecticut Department of Education, she led the redesign of Connecticut’s school accountability system to better capture student growth and improvement. She then launched the Connecticut region of Educators for Excellence as the Founding Executive Director, leading the new team to elevate the voices of teachers on behalf of their students in Bridgeport, New Haven, and Hartford.

Ranjana is a graduate of Stanford University and holds a J.D. from Yale Law School. She recently spent a year with her family traveling internationally and “worldschooling” her two sons, Akshay and Ishaan. She now lives in Boulder, CO.