About Aditi

aditi’s story

Aditi Goel (Founder & Executive Director, P16 Partners) began her career as a Teach for America corps member teaching 3rd grade at Martin Behrman Elementary School (New Orleans, LA) as well as a special education teacher at Independence High School (San Jose, CA).

She earned her Masters in Education Policy & Management from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education in order to learn the theory, the research and the promising models across the country that could build upon her years of teaching.

Aditi then spent the next decade intentionally and purposefully working in different parts of the education and nonprofit sector in an effort to better understand what impact, collaboration and organizational effectiveness look like across the social impact ecosystem.

She spent one year in academia working directly with Dean Penelope Peterson at Northwestern University’s School of Education and Social Policy (Chicago, IL) managing the Dean’s special programs and projects.

She worked for 6 years at WestEd (San Francisco, CA) immersed in data collection, research analysis, providing consulting services to state leaders as part of the Regional Education Laboratories, and publishing several national studies and reports on topics ranging from magnet and charter school models to community-college remediation rate analyses.

Aditi joined the Silicon Valley Leadership Group where she directed the Education portfolio (Pre-K through higher education programs, policy and partnerships). During her time here, she leveraged this intersection of Silicon Valley public and private sector C-suite executives, education policymakers and nonprofit leaders to broker cross-sector partnerships, advocate for state education legislation, and designed + produced cross-sector convenings to highlight regional issues, build awareness for promising practices and connect funders to nonprofits and policymakers to practitioners.

As a result of the impact she created and the visibility she generated for education issues, organizations, and leaders in the Valley, she was recruited to Google’s Diversity team to design, manage and lead a new computer science initiative designed specifically for African-American and Latinx kids and communities. Code Next works with middle and high school students, educators and families in Oakland, CA, Brooklyn, NY and Harlem, NY as well as virtually through Code Next Connect to “cultivate the next generation of Black and Latinx tech leaders”.

With a deep passion for equity and a commitment to ensuring that all children everywhere have access to excellent learning opportunities, Aditi created P16 Partners as a way to leverage her expertise and experience to help mission-driven organizations do their work better so they can accelerate towards achieving their mission.

Active in her Bay Area community, Aditi is a Board Member for organizations including Girls Leadership (National Board Member) and Teach for America - Bay Area.

Aditi holds a BA in Philosophy from UC Berkeley with a minor in South Asian Studies. She earned her Masters in Education Policy & Management from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education.