Mark Roosevelt

Mark Roosevelt (born December 10, 1955) is an American academic administrator and politician who served as the seventh president of the Santa Fe campus of St. John's College.

In 1977, Roosevelt served as campaign manager for John D. O'Bryant, the first black man elected to the Boston School Committee.

[8][9] In 1994, Roosevelt was the Democratic nominee for Governor of Massachusetts and lost the general election to the Republican incumbent, William Weld.

[11] Under his leadership, PPS met federal achievement standards (AYP) for the first time, received a $40-million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation focused on improving teacher effectiveness,[12] opened several innovative new schools,[13] adopted a more rigorous curriculum,[14] and inaugurated a nationally recognized program to recruit, train and support school principals as instructional leaders.

[16] On October 6, 2010, he held a press conference to announce his resignation as superintendent of Pittsburgh Public Schools effective December 31, 2010.

In June of that year, the St. John's Board of Visitors and Governors voted to make Roosevelt the college-wide president as of July 1, 2016.

[30] Prior to Antioch College, Dorothy worked at Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and as a yoga instructor.

Mark Roosevelt also has an adopted son, Matthew, born in South Korea and raised in Boston, from a previous marriage.

Roosevelt as a State Representative in 1987
Roosevelt (right) campaigns for governor in 1994 with his running-mate Bob Massie in Danvers