Ernest Ezeugo is the strategy officer for federal policy at Lumina Foundation, an independent, private foundation in Indianapolis committed to making learning opportunities beyond high school available to all.
Prior to joining Lumina, he was the higher education and workforce policy director at Young Invincibles, where he led the organization’s policy advocacy strategy. In that role, he was selected to serve as a primary negotiator on the U.S. Department of Education’s Institutional and Programmatic Eligibility negotiated rulemaking committee, representing students, student-led organizations, and student loan borrowers. Ernest has also held roles at the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association, the National Campus Leadership Council, New America, and the U.S. Department of Education.
Ernest is a board member of the Project on Predatory Student Lending and Digital Harbor Foundation. He has written about higher education, opportunity, and economic mobility in Forbes, Slate Magazine, the Chronicle of Higher Education, the Hechinger Report, and The EDU Ledger.
