The Churn

Joseph Shook, former program officer of education at the Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation, is now senior program officer.

Emily Merrill, former senior program officer of education at the Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation, has been named executive director at Tandem Philanthropies.

Carolyne Quintana, former deputy chancellor for teaching and learning at New York City Public Schools, has been appointed chief executive officer at Teaching Matters.

Patrick Sims has been promoted from senior director of policy and programs to vice president of policy and programs at PIE Network.

Eric Wenck, former chief information officer at FullBloom, is now chief technology officer at ACT.

Ali Noorani, program director of the U.S. Democracy Program at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, will be joining the Barr Foundation as their new president in December.

Lupita Cortez Alcalá, previously the chief deputy superintendent of public instruction at the California Department of Education, is the incoming executive director of Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE) at Stanford University.

Brad Wolverton, founder of Wolverton Media Solutions and former senior director of content at HubSpot, has been named editor at The Chronicle of Higher Education.