This story was originally published in the Arizona Capitol Times on June 29, 2020.
For the third in its new series of video interviews with movers and shakers from the world of Arizona politics, the Arizona Capitol Times sat down (virtually) with Emily Anne Gullickson, the founder and executive director of education non-profit A for Arizona. Gullickson is an educator and J.D. who headed up education policy efforts at the Arizona Chamber Foundation, A for Arizona’s previous home. Gullickson left the Chamber last year, soon thereafter reformed A for Arizona as an independent organization. She spoke to the Capitol Times about her split with the Chamber, the difficulties that educators face in the COVID era and the potentially lasting changes in education delivery that the virus might bring…