Dr. Karen A. Stout is President and CEO of Achieving the Dream, Inc., the nation’s most comprehensive non-governmental reform movement for student success. The former President of Montgomery County Community College (PA) for 14 years, Dr. Stout serves on the Advisory Board of the Community College Research Center (CCRC) at Teachers College, Columbia University. She is a Commissioner and Executive Committee member with the Middle States Commission on Higher Education and a past member of the American Association of Community Colleges Board of Directors (2011-2014).