Ryan RussoDirector of Strategic Partnerships
Ryan Russo is the Director of Strategic Partnerships at engage2learn. Ryan leads strategic partnership development and growth across engage2learn and Generation Ready, developing new markets, managing procurement and RFP opportunities, strengthening sales systems and processes, and supporting the post-acquisition integration that brings both organizations to one approach to partnership development and growth.
Ryan brings 12 years of K-12 experience. Ryan taught English with New Visions for Public Schools from 2014 to 2018 and was English Department Chair and a teacher at the Urban Assembly School for Collaborative Healthcare from 2018 to 2022, leading literacy strategy, mentoring teachers, facilitating professional development, and using student performance data to strengthen instruction and improve literacy outcomes in New York City public schools. Ryan was then Director of Partnerships at Curvebreakers Test Prep from 2023 to 2025 and at Generation Ready from 2025 to 2026, where Ryan built the partnerships function from the ground up, developing pipeline architecture, forecasting, outreach strategies, and new-market initiatives.
Ryan holds a Master of Science in Education in Secondary Education from Queens College, City University of New York, and a Bachelor of Arts in English & Global Culture from Binghamton University, and holds a New York State 6-12 education license.
“I remember being a first-year teacher and feeling completely unprepared — carrying that pressure and self-doubt alone,” Ryan says. “I do this work so no other educator, from a brand-new teacher to a seasoned leader, has to feel that way. Every prepared, confident educator changes the trajectory for the students who need them most — and that ripples out to whole communities.”
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