Sheri Ranis
Director for Workforce Education and Innovation
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
Dr. Sheri H. Ranis is the Director for Workforce Education and Innovation with the Workforce Education Division of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. She brings over 30 years of education policy and grantmaking experience to her work with Career and Technical Education. Sheri’s topical expertise spans college access and success policies and strategies, non-profit organizational management, technology-enabled innovation in instruction and student supports and education research and evaluation. Community/technical colleges and adult student populations are her professional passions.Early in her career Sheri ran international and domestic education and scholarship programs at the Social Science Research Council. She served as senior staff designing and managing education investment portfolios at both the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Lumina Foundation. Sheri was also Executive Director of a college access and success non-profit in Seattle, WA. She has served as a consultant and on numerous advisory boards and committees for non-profit and education enterprises across the United States. Sheri holds a Ph.D. in Education from Teachers College, Columbia University and degrees in international affairs and government from Columbia University and Smith College, respectively.