Fiona Lin

As Vice President for Research & Evaluation, Fiona Lin spearheads TNTP’s evolving research agenda on teacher effectiveness and oversees the internal and external evaluations of all of TNTP’s programs and service models.

Prior to joining the Research and Evaluation business line, Fiona served as founding Partner with TNTP’s Training and Certification line, where she managed a portfolio of contracts, including TNTP Academy in Lousiana, which has certified more than 1,000 beginning teachers to date and is training over a quarter of all new teachers in post-Katrina New Orleans.

Before joining TNTP in 2001, Fiona worked at the national offices of Teach For America, where she developed and piloted a performance assessment tool with beginning teachers in Newark Public Schools. Fiona joined the teaching profession as a Teach For America corps member, teaching middle school in Seattle Public Schools. She holds a Master's in Education from the University of Michigan and a BA in History from Yale University.