Jonathan Scoonover is TQEE’s senior vice president of strategic practice and director of the Bright Start Tennessee Network. He leads the organization’s work to build and support data-driven early childhood education systems and ensures strategic “on-the-ground” practice informs the organization’s statewide policy agenda. Prior to joining TQEE Jonathan served as the Executive Director of Innovation for the Knox Education Foundation. Prior to his work in the nonprofit education sector, he spent a decade working in the field of philanthropy, where he led an international effort to prevent and alleviate child domestic servitude in Haiti. Jonathan also serves on the board of the Association of Infant Mental Health in TN (AIMHiTN), For the Love of Reading, and Beyond Borders Haiti. He holds a Master of Public Health degree and B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering, both from the University of Tennessee. Jonathan’s favorite children’s book is The Book with No Pictures, by B.J. Novak because it gives the power back to the little reader and it is hilarious.
Jonathan Scoonover
Senior Vice President of Strategic Practice; Director, Bright Start TN
