Clay Willis is a mission- and results-driven marketing and communications leader committed to making education work for every single learner. As UnboundEd’s Vice President of Marketing & Communications, Clay advances the organization’s reach and impact by forging meaningful connections with visionary educators.
Before joining UnboundEd, Clay led marketing and Communications for Pivot Learning and its subsidiary CORE Learning and spent six years with WestEd leading communications strategy, marketing, and brand growth for a diverse portfolio of special initiatives, research projects, and professional learning services. Additionally, as a project lead and subject matter expert with WestEd’s Regional Comprehensive Centers, Clay worked closely with multiple state departments of education to scale communications impact through an original strategic communications capacity-building approach.
Clay previously led communications operations for NewSchools Venture Fund and worked with the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. Clay began his career as a journalist and received his B.S. from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University in Journalism and Anthropology.