Ricky Hurtado

Program Officer at Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation; Co-Founder of LatinxEd

Ricky Hurtado is a former nonprofit practitioner and educator. In 2018, he co-founded LatinxEd, an organization working to advance education equity and Latine leadership. He also has taught at the UNC School of Education. His leadership on education issues has led him to serve North Carolina in different ways, including serving on Governor Cooper’s DRIVE Task Force on education equity and teacher diversity; as a commissioner of My Future NC, an initiative focused on college attainment across the state; and even as an NC House Representative, where he represented Alamance County (District 63) as the only Latino legislator of the 170-member body of the North Carolina General Assembly. Most recently, Ricky served as Senior Consultant at Frontline Solutions, where he supported nonprofits nationwide to strengthen their racial equity approach and increase their impact through strategic planning. Now he is a Program Officer at the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation. Ricky received his Bachelor's in Business Administration from UNC-Chapel Hill and a Master's in Public Affairs from Princeton University.