Allison Gaines Pell is the head of school at The Wheeler School in Providence, Rhode Island. She was on the founding team of the national non-profit New Leaders for New Schools and was the founder and principal of Arts & Letters, a public PK-8 in Brooklyn, New York. She is currently serving on the board of the Association of Independent Schools of New England (AISNE) and on the faculty of NAIS’ Institute for New Heads.