Chris Barbic – Bio

Chris Barbic is a partner with The City Fund. He founded YES Prep Public Schools (winner of the very first Broad Prize for the best charter organization in the nation) and was most recently the founding superintendent of the Achievement School District, where he led Tennessee’s effort to rapidly turnaround the bottom 5% of schools in the state.

Chris is a graduate of Vanderbilt University, and he lives in Nashville with his wife, Natasha. They have two children, Tatiana (20) and Ramiz (18).