Dr. Carter is the CEO and head of school at Beacon Academy. Before joining Beacon, Dr. Carter was a founding member of the leadership team for Project Evident, a national organization focused on helping not-for-profit organizations and philanthropic foundations harness the power of evidence to achieve greater impact. He also co-created and led a virtual learning program for practitioners and leaders called Talent Accelerator. Similarly, Dr. Carter designed and piloted the Data & Evidence Equity Guide, a tool to integrate diversity, equity, and inclusion principles into evidence building. Prior to that, he served as deputy director and chief strategy officer at the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University, where he created a learning strategy and built the capacity of individuals, organizations, and systems to drive and scale innovation. Dr. Carter is currently a trustee for the Foundation for MetroWest and a past member of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation National Evaluation Advisory Committee. He has been an adjunct faculty member at Boston College Graduate School of Social Work and guest lecturer at Harvard Graduate School of Education and Simmons College Graduate Schools of Management and Social Work. He earned his master’s degree in social work from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his Ph.D. in social work from Boston College.