Background:
John Bellaire is an analyst at Bellwether.
In 2025, he graduated from Brown University where he concentrated in education studies and international and public affairs. While at Brown, John studied family-school relationships in diverse schooling contexts as a research assistant for Professor David Rangel’s Families and Schools Project. For his senior honors thesis, John collaborated with the Arkansas Department of Education to investigate the effects of school corporal punishment policies on student behavior. John also led a civics education organization that increased democratic engagement and expanded voting rights across Rhode Island while an undergraduate student.
As a passionate youth mentor, John has worked to create life-changing summers for young boys as a senior counselor and village director at Camp Nebagamon in the Northwoods of Wisconsin. John has also mentored students as a substitute teacher at Winchester Public Schools in Massachusetts and as a peer academic adviser in college.
Why I do this work:
The devotion of countless teachers, mentors, and role models has made me the learner, leader, and advocate I am today. I do this work to pay forward their devotion and create opportunities for future generations of students to achieve their potential.
Experience at Bellwether:
Policy Research and Analysis; Program Evaluation / Evaluation Capacity-Building; Advocacy Organizations; Funding and Finance Systems
