Board of DIRECTORS

Spencer Blasdale, Director, Chair and clerk

Mr. Blasdale is the Executive Director of the Academy of the Pacific Rim Charter Public School in Boston, a position he also held for 10 years between 1997 and 2007. Before his current stint at APR, he served for eight years as Chief Executive Officer of SchoolWorks, an education consulting organization. Previously he worked for City Year in Boston and Chicago, as well as taught for three years at Beaver Country Day School in Brookline, MA. He also served as the Board Chair of the Massachusetts Charter School Association from 2004-2008. Mr. Blasdale has served as a leadership coach, school quality reviewer, and strategy consultant for clients, including the Kauffman Foundation and the KIPP Network. He has spent 20 years in the field of education, beginning with a teaching internship at The Park School in Brookline, MA and working as a teacher, administrator, and service partner to district schools in Chicago and Boston. Mr. Blasdale has a M.Ed. from Harvard University and an A.B. from Princeton University.

taylor deloach, director

Ms. DeLoach is originally from Maryland and graduated from Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT. She began her career in education as a resident teacher at Sposato, graduating with her Master’s in Effective Teaching (MET) degree in 2015. During her second year of the MET program, she joined the staff of Alma del Mar Charter School in New Bedford, MA where she taught in the elementary school. She later served as an Academic Dean and the Dean of Culture at Alma before being named Founding Principal of Alma’s Frederick Douglass Campus in 2019.

Ann Sagan, director and Treasurer

Ms. Sagan previously volunteered at Match Charter Public School as a dean and served formally as Chair of its Board of Directors. She was formerly a financial analyst with The New York Times Company. She holds an undergraduate degree from Duke University in public policy, an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago, and a master’s degree in education from Bank Street College of Education. Her previous board experience includes three years on the Board of Education in Montclair, NJ, where she served as chair of the finance and budget committee.

Sara staats, director

Ms. Staats is the co-founder and partner at AltshulerStaats LLC, a strategy consulting firm focused on serving academic and biomedical research organizations. Prior to that, she worked at The Boston Consulting Group, an internationally-renowned strategy consulting firm. Her work focuses on critical issues of strategy, growth, and financial sustainability across a range of academic organizations, including K-12, higher education, and research-based organizations. Clients within K-12 have included Boston, DC and Newark charter schools, Boston area independent schools as well as education technology organizations. Over her career, she has worked with a range of for profit and not-for-profit organizations, and seeks to bring best practices from each to the other. Ms. Staats received her B.A. from Georgetown University and completed her MBA at Harvard Business School.