Zarek Drozda

Zarek Drozda is the Executive Director of Data Science 4 Everyone, a national initiative and coalition based at the University of Chicago. Zarek helped launch DS4E in 2019, co-organizing a coalition of 3,000+ education leaders to advance data science and data literacy education in K-12 schools across 29 states and counting. Zarek also contributes to AI education policy with the Federation of American Scientists, previously spearhead research in emerging technology skill-building for the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences (IES), and advised the national COVID response, coordinating data analytics for an inter-agency team between the White House, Department of Education, and Center for Disease Control (CDC). Prior to Federal service, Zarek helped build a social impact incubator (the Center for RISC) with economist and Freakonomics co-author Steven Levitt.