The team behind SGO Guide

Gabriella leads education at SGO Guide, and she has sat on both sides of the table this program touches: the classroom that scholarship dollars land in, and the board that has to govern and fund them.

She currently serves as Board Chair of Norwood School, where she guides board strategy and governance in support of enrollment growth, financial sustainability, and campus stewardship, and she previously served as Board Chair of Horizons Greater Washington, where she strengthened board governance and fundraising strategy to expand partnerships and increase impact for underserved students. That governance and fundraising experience is exactly what an SGO board is asked to do under Section 25F.

Gabriella began her career in education after a year with the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, joining Teach For America as a corps member at a Title I dual-language public school in Washington, D.C., where she served as a special education teacher and literacy coach before advancing into school leadership as Assistant Principal — running the day-to-day operations, staff, and student services of a school.

She is a graduate of Kenyon College, where she earned distinction in American Studies, and holds a Doctorate of Education in Leadership and Learning in Organizations from Vanderbilt University and a Master of Science in Education from Johns Hopkins University.

Taylor is a technologist with more than 15 years of experience building software products, most recently as an engineer at Meta working to protect children and teens from the harms of social media — work where safety, compliance, and audit-readiness were not features of the product, they were the product.

That work was done shoulder-to-shoulder with compliance, legal, and policy teams under real regulatory scrutiny, which is the same posture Section 25F demands of an SGO: prove what happened, when, and under whose authority.

He brings that engineering standard to SGO Guide as his full-time focus: tamper-evident audit logs, real-time compliance monitoring, and disbursement controls built for organizations that cannot afford to get them wrong.

Robert has spent his entire career in education. He has helped establish private schools, advised education institutions, and built software products serving secondary and higher education — which means he has seen how a school is founded, how it is governed, and how families actually pay for it.

At Sterling Partners, the Chicago-based investment firm with a decades-long history in education, Robert has worked with many of the firm's education portfolio companies — a vantage point that gives him a firsthand understanding of how secondary education is funded and what schools and families actually need. Section 25F is the problem he has spent his career preparing for; SGO Guide is where he is solving it.