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Meet Our Team
CHADD JOHNSON is an educator, strategist, and builder of systems that put people at the center of civic and educational life. For more than two decades, he has led efforts to strengthen trust, belonging, and participation in schools and communities across the country.
Chadd’s career has spanned classrooms and leadership roles from Detroit to Philadelphia to Minneapolis. He has served as a teacher, dean, and department chair; guided graduate students at the University of Pennsylvania’s top-ranked school of education; and helped design curricula that center global citizenship, narrative literacy, and civic engagement. Along the way, he has mentored new educators, championed neurodiverse learners, and received national recognition as a nominee for the Gilder-Lehrman National History Teacher of the Year.
At the heart of his career is a conviction that trust must come before ideology, belonging before politics, and everyday acts before sweeping change. These same commitments animate the Alloy Network: a movement to rebuild democracy from the ground up, block by block, neighbor by neighbor.
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DANA MORTENSON is a strategic social impact leader who has founded and scaled a national education nonprofit and supported leaders and organizations navigating complexity and change. With more than 25 years of cross-sector leadership—including $42M+ raised, 1M+ students impacted, and working with communities in nearly every US state and more than 35 countries—Dana brings credibility and systems thinking to help others lead with courage and build solutions that leave legacies.
Throughout her career, she has supported leaders and communities through moments of change—providing practical guidance, effective strategies, and systems that enable them to meet complex challenges with clarity and purpose. Whether advising educators, social entrepreneurs, or civic innovators, her work is rooted in authentic relationships and a deep understanding of local context—because lasting change starts from the ground up.
She believes education and learning are catalysts for meaningful progress in every organization and movement striving for social impact. By equipping people to think critically, connect meaningfully, and lead with integrity, we lay the groundwork for more inclusive, adaptive, and resilient systems.
With more than two decades of experience in K–12 education, KK NEIMANN has dedicated her career to helping young people and communities think critically, engage meaningfully, and make informed decisions that strengthen democracy. Since beginning as a classroom teacher in 2000, KK has taught every grade from 5th through 12th in both Social Studies and English, bringing a passion for curiosity, dialogue, and lifelong learning to each classroom.
Holding a Master’s in Education from Harvard University, KK most recently spent four years at an education nonprofit supporting school leaders across the county to reimagine the K–12 system. In this role, she built partnerships, facilitated community events, and worked to align schools and communities around a shared vision for the future of education.
Deeply committed to civic and community life, KK believes that education is not only about knowledge, but about cultivating the habits of curiosity, collaboration, and constructive engagement that sustain healthy communities. Through teaching, leadership, and community-building, she continues to champion positive political engagement and the power of learning to shape a better future.