#  Kate Bean 

Scholar in Residence

 

 

 



   ![Kate Bean](/sites/g/files/omnuum9706/files/styles/hwp_4_5__480x600/public/2025-08/Kate%20Bean%20Photo%202025_0.jpg?h=1cf66dd9&itok=hiAhXvYN) 

 



 

 email [kate\_bean@harvard.edu](mailto:kate_bean@harvard.edu) 

 



 

Kate Bean is a Senior Fellow at the Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative. For 18 years she served as the founder/CEO of Aveson, a non-profit organization built to manage charter schools and lead a national movement of personalized K-12 public education.

Kate is also the founder of iChangeCourse. She has recently written a book chronicling her road trip across the United States in a converted cargo van hoping to find herself by losing herself in service. On her journey she discovered the power of embracing change and noticing the extraordinary in every ordinary moment. Life is a journey. Change is the vehicle. The destination is now.



 

 

 





 

 

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