Staff

Katherine Brittain Bradley
President
Katherine Brittain Bradley is the president of CityBridge Foundation, a non-profit enterprise located in Washington, DC. Mrs. Bradley co-founded CityBridge in 1994 with her husband, entrepreneur and magazine publisher David G. Bradley. CityBridge directs practice areas in education, international health, and created ServiceCorps, a corporate civic engagement initiative. In 2006, CityBridge launched a five-year initiative to improve quality and expand capacity in early childhood and elementary education in the District of Columbia. In 2007, CityBridge expanded its impact in education into the K-12 DC Public Schools space. By engaging local business and public leaders, philanthropists and education activists in its mission, the Foundation seeks to leverage its work to stimulate broader public-sector change. Building and fostering strong community partnerships with existing best-in-class organizations is also central to the Foundation’s success.

In addition to her work with CityBridge Foundation, Mrs. Bradley serves as a board member for America’s Promise, the KIPP Foundation, Fight for Children, and Princeton University. She chairs the Washington regional board for Teach for America. She graduated in 1986 from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Katherine and David Bradley have three teenage sons.

Arthur McKee
Program Director, CityBridge Education
Arthur McKee heads CityBridge Foundation’s Early Years Education Initiative, which aims to close the achievement gap in the nation’s capital through strategic investments in early childhood educational services and supports.

Prior to the launch of the Early Years Initiative in 2006, Arthur investigated the potential of philanthropic strategies in the areas of homeless service provision, workforce development, and asset building. He also taught Russian history at American University.

Arthur joined the foundation in 2000. He has a Bachelor of Arts in History from Princeton University and a Ph.D. in Russian History from U.C. Berkeley. He serves on the board of DC Preparatory Academy and has two young sons.

Annie (Linehan) Czerwinski
Program Director, ServiceCorps
Annie Czerwinski oversees the ServiceCorps program, directing operations and strategy for ServiceCorps’ civic engagement program for local corporate partners.

Her previous experience includes two years of corporate marketing with The Advisory Board Company and the Corporate Executive Board. Prior to that, Annie worked at UNICEF in Buenos Aires, helping direct strategy for Public Private Partnerships in Argentina. She also served with AmeriCorps in Washington, D.C., where she taught nutrition through a program developed by the Capital Area Community Food Bank. 

Annie holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Spanish from the University of Notre Dame and a Master of Arts from the Georgetown University Public Policy Institute. She is a mentor with the Higher Achievement Program and was named to the Board of Directors in 2008.  Annie formerly served as the Secretary/Treasurer of the Georgetown Public Policy Alumni Board.

Mieka Wick
Associate Director, Educational Initiatives
Mieka Wick heads CityBridge Foundation’s public private partnerships in K-12 Education Reform in Washington, DC.  Her work includes the management of projects with and for DCPS and many of DC’s charter schools, as well efforts to educate and engage other local philanthropists in DC’s education landscape.

Mieka’s prior experience includes three years at New Profit Inc., a Boston-based venture philanthropy fund, where she served as Investor Relations Manager, and two years as a consultant to Massachusetts’ Commissioner of Education David Driscoll on teacher quality legislation for the State of MA.  After completing her MBA, she spent two years at Reebok International working on the merger of the Reebok brand with The Adidas Group. 

Mieka holds a BA from Brown University and an MBA from Babson University.  She is a Founding Board Member of DC School Reform Now and is a Member-at-Large of the Executive Board of the National Cathedral School for Girls Alumnae Association.