Peter Orne, MJ, is an editorial and communications consultant with 15 years of experience promoting federally funded research and technical assistance initiatives to national audiences of state and local education professionals. He has served as Co-Lead of CIFR’s Technology & Communications Team since 2017. He is a former Director of Communications for the Learning and Teaching Division at Education Development Center, Inc., and was the Dissemination Director for the Regional Educational Laboratory Northeast and Islands for nearly a decade. He has brought his expertise to projects such as the U.S. Department of Education’s Investing in Innovation Fund (i3) and the National Science Foundation’s Research + Practice Collaboratory. Orne designs and carries out wide-scale dissemination strategies using a data-driven, continuous-improvement approach across a range of digital publication and storytelling platforms. He has a master’s in journalism from the University of California Berkeley.