Dr. Bonnie Holliday
President and CEO
Dr. Bonnie Holliday
President and CEO
Dr. Bonnie Holliday is President and CEO of the Georgia Charter Schools Association. Before assuming her current role, she led GCSA’s policy and advocacy work for six years and successfully shepherded the passage of critical legislation to increase charter school funding, autonomy, and flexibility. Recognized as a leading education policy expert, Dr. Holliday has advised top elected officials at the state level for over a decade.
Before joining the GCSA staff, Dr. Holliday served as the Executive Director of Georgia’s State Charter Schools Commission and also as the Executive Director of the state’s academic accountability agency—the Governor’s Office of Student Achievement. She also worked previously in the Governor’s Office of Planning and Budget, and she began her career in public education as a high school English teacher and AP coordinator at Banks County High School.
Dr. Holliday received her bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees from the University of Georgia, and her dissertation research focused on charter school coalition building throughout the state.
