Dr. Doannie Tran is Managing Partner at the Center for Innovation in Education (CIE), where he guides communities, districts, and states through the work of building more equitable and accountable education systems. He specializes in co-creation — designing processes that bring educator, family, student, and community voice into decisions that have historically excluded them. His work has taken him across the country: facilitating a statewide accountability redesign in Kentucky, leading a student-centered strategic planning process in Burlington that rebuilt community trust, helping a high-performing district in Bellevue confront deep-seated inequities, and supporting Vicksburg in building a unifying framework across a long history of racial division.

Before CIE, Doannie served as Assistant Superintendent in both Boston Public Schools and Fulton County Schools, began his career as a science teacher in Oakland and Boston, and helped launch Teach For America's Massachusetts region. He is co-author of "The Open System" and co-founder of the Open Systems Institute, whose work has been incorporated into curricula at Yale, Columbia, Brown, and Harvard.

Doannie holds a doctorate in education leadership from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a bachelor's degree in chemistry from the University of Georgia. He lives in Atlanta’s Grant Park with his wife Holly, an adolescent medicine physician, and their two children.