Chris Wakefield is a seasoned education leader with an international profile in training educators in Project Based Learning. Wakefield is a beacon of fun and rigor in the classroom, always aiming to inspire and educate his students. Wakefield has a well-rounded academic background with a Master of Education in School Leadership from High Tech High Graduate School of Education, a Master of Education in Curriculum and Instruction from George Mason University, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Virginia.

Wakefield has a diverse professional experience teaching 9th-grade Math at High Tech High Media Arts, coaching as Director at Ideate High Academy, Project Based Learning Teacher Coach at The Innovation Unit Limited, and teaching Physics at High Tech High Media Arts and The Preuss School UCSD.