Ayeola Fortune is the Vice President of the Impact Team at United Way Worldwide (UWW). She provides oversight, strategic guidance, and support to team members managing key initiatives in youth opportunity, financial security, and health. She leads UWW’s efforts to support local United Ways to advance equitable community impact by developing frameworks, strategies, peer learning and training opportunities, and developing resources and tools. She also leads UWW’s efforts to collect and aggregate data from local United Ways to demonstrate collective impact across communities. Before joining UWW, Ayeola served as the director of extended learning opportunities and development Project at the Council of Chief State School Officers from 2001-2009. In this role, she developed proposals to support Council activities based on identified state education agency needs relative to implementing federal policy initiatives. Preceding this role, Ayeola was a high school teacher at The Ellis School in Pittsburgh, PA. Ayeola earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Government from Lehigh University, as well as a Master of Arts in Political Science from the University of Pittsburgh.