Gina Condon

PRESIDENT & CO-FOUNDER

Gina Condon is laser-focused on a simple concept that requires a complex solution: Oregon youth will thrive and Oregon industry will flourish when Oregon schools dedicate themselves toward transforming the student experience to be self- directed, prioritizing student agency and autonomy with learning.

With 20 years of entrepreneurial and child development experience Gina is convening visionary, cross-sector partnerships, building the collective will necessary to move schools from lecture and test-prep to project-based learning across disciplines. As Constuct’s President, Gina surfaces leaders and aligns stakeholders in public and private sectors to adapt design-thinking programs that encourage collaboration, creativity, empathy, curiosity and risk-taking for everyone impacted by school outcomes. 

 In the past six years, Construct has engaged thousands of Oregon students, teachers, principals, and district leaders; tech and industry problem-solvers, non-profits, business associations, and civic organizations. 

A former member of the Social Innovation Incubator at Portland State, Gina brought the industry re-invention program, Breaker, to Oregon--then iterated it for K-12 students; she expanded the programs’ Breakaway Workshop for teachers and established a collaboration with College Possible to ensure under-resourced youth were at the center of the education revolution; she worked with Stanford d.school’s K12 Lab to become a convening partner for School Retool--a fellowship to support school leaders in building equitable deeper learning structures on their campus. Today, Construct is Stanford’s only West Coast Model 3 partner, delivering Retool to school leaders and their teams across Oregon. By engaging vital school cohorts in systems change, by unleashing and nurturing passionate school leaders and engaging other passionate edu-preneuers, Gina has helped to create a path to transform schools. 

Before founding Construct, Gina spent a decade in youth programming and five years in Silicon Valley, building design teams for tech companies. She received her BA in Psychology from UC Irvine and her MEd from Harvard's Graduate School of Education.

If you’re interested in changing the state of Oregon education, you could start here: gina@constructfoundation.org