Reed Hastings
Reed is an active educational philanthropist and served as President of the California State Board of Education from 2000 to 2004. He is currently on the boards of the non-profits Lone Rock, City Fund, Pahara, National Alliance for Public Charter Schools and KIPP.
Reed received a BA from Bowdoin College in 1983 and an MSCS in Artificial Intelligence from Stanford University in 1988. Between Bowdoin and Stanford, Reed served in the Peace Corps as a high school math teacher in Swaziland. Reed is married with two children, both charter school graduates.