UP Education Network is pleased to welcome Julianna Quinlan as its new Chief Development Officer. 

Julianna joins UP Education Network with ten years of experience in development and volunteer management, including five years at City Year Boston, where she most recently served as Director of Individual Giving. She has also held roles at Summits Education and Flying Kites Global.

In her new role, Julianna will report to Veronica Conforme, CEO of UP Education Network, and serve on the senior leadership team. Julianna will lead all fundraising efforts for UP Education Network, including individual and corporate giving, state and federal funding opportunities, and the design and execution of fundraising campaigns. As the first-ever C-level development leader, Julianna will set the vision and strategy for development efforts for the network. She will also serve as a frontline fundraiser, building and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders to generate revenue to accelerate UP’s impact.

About UP Education Network

Founded in 2010, UP Education Network is a Massachusetts-based nonprofit school management organization. It is one of the few in the country that is successfully tackling the challenges of in-district school turnaround. UP operates three schools in Boston, MA, two in Lawrence, MA, and one in Springfield, MA, serving more than 3,000 of Massachusetts’s historically underserved students.

UP’s mission is to rapidly transform chronically underperforming district schools into extraordinary schools that sustain high achievement over time. For more information about UP Education Network, visit www.upeducationnetwork.org.