Callam co-founded and designed the EvanSTEM project in coordination with Evanston School District 65 superintendent Paul Goren in 2015. He has extensive experience as an educator, administrator, and youth program leader.
In the 1990’s Kirby founded the Washington Park Youth Program, a successful full-service youth program on Chicago’s Southside in partnership with local schools, the Chicago Park District, three community organizations and the University of Chicago (U of C). Later that decade, he led the operational start-up of the U of C’s first charter school in the nearby North Kenwood/Oakland community. After teaching middle school math in Evanston District 65 for five years, Kirby founded and led the Chicago Talent Development Charter High School on Chicago’s Westside for five years.
Kirby holds an engineering degree from the University of Michigan Ann Arbor, a Master’s in Public and Private Management from Yale University, and Master’s of Arts in Teaching from National Louis University.
