Bonnie Lo

Education Consultant: Research & Design

Bonnie Lo is an Education Consultant who specializes in the intersection of organizational leadership, coaching, and school systems. Bonnie partners with Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) to build resources and facilitate leadership learning. She enjoys working with Executive Cabinet members and school systems leaders to deepen equity-focused professional learning and strategic collaboration.

Dr. Bonnie Lo’s 20+ year journey in education leadership includes: elementary teacher in a Spanish bilingual district through a social justice partnership with UCLA; school teacher turned principal in Bogotá, Colombia in a PreK-12^th grade school; Instructional Reform Facilitator focused on shifting teacher practices to increase student learning; and school principal in San Francisco, where she inspired a “Community of Life-long, Joyful Learners.” While serving as the Director of Principal Leadership in San Francisco Unified School District, she led networks of schools to strengthen Instructional Leadership Teams and designed whole-child based learning across 1000+ classrooms. 

As an alumna of Harvard’s Doctor of Education Leadership program, Bonnie is an avid contributor to PK-16 organizations. She has been a teaching member for education leaders working on their participatory action-activist research through East Carolina University’s International Ed.D. program. In addition, she researched and co-designed tools for the book “Entry Planning for Equity-Focused Leadership: Empowering Schools and Communities.” Dr. Lo is an experienced facilitator for Harvard’s Public Education Leadership Project.