about CDL

Christine DeLeon currently provides consulting services for education nonprofits and philanthropic organizations as founder of CDL Consulting. Past clients include Summit Learning/Facebook, Envision Education, Margulf Foundation, Donnell Kay Foundation, BES, Moonshot, and Alliance College-Ready Public Schools. She was most recently CEO at the Wend Collective, James Walton's personal philanthropic organization, and was responsible for overseeing program, impact and operations.

Previously, Christine served as founder and CEO of Moonshot edVentures, where she was responsible for surfacing and supporting a diverse set of leaders, representative of the communities they aim to serve, to design and launch the schools and programs of tomorrow in Metro Denver. Previously, she founded Education Pioneers’ first year-long fellowship. Her other previous experiences include roles with Education Cities, Denver Public Schools, the Broad Foundation, and the Boston Consulting Group. She served as a Harvard Innovation Lab Fellow and is a trained facilitator of Intergroup Dialogues, structured to explore social group identity, conflict, community, and social justice.

Christine is a member of the inaugural cohort of the Pahara-NextGen Fellowship of Spring 2014, a 2019 Education Leaders of Color Boulder Fund recipient, the 2019 Sheila Bugdanowitz Award recipient and the 2020 A+ Colorado Sharpening Education Award. She holds a BBA from the University of Michigan and an Ed.L.D. from Harvard University. Christine enjoys getting outdoors, running and gardening, and spending time with her sons Emmett and Aidan, and husband, Ian.