Ivan Cestero is a Program Manager with the Quest team at Cambiar Education.
Cambiar Quest develops students' durable skills through career exploration and work-based learning experiences.
Ivan supports school partnerships, program implementation, and growth for the Cambiar Quest team.
He is a lifetime educator and innovator with expertise in project-based learning, new models, strategy and cross sector partnerships. A founding faculty member at Avenues: The World School in New York, and Portal Learning in LA, Ivan is passionate about real world learning, entrepreneurship, and centering student agency and wellness in the age of AI. He has developed student-led startup workshops at SXSWedu; original social entrepreneurship programming at Alpbach International Forum; and original design challenges with Breaker, IDEO, and others.
Ivan also has experience in the corporate innovation consulting and nonprofit worlds, and has lived and worked in six countries. Ivan holds a BA in Comparative Literature and Education from Dartmouth College.