Chike Aguh was born in New Jersey to immigrant parents from rural Nigeria. He attended Tufts University and graduated in 2005 with a degree in Political Science. While at Tufts, he served as student body president as well as a board member of various black student organizations.Upon arrival in New York, he worked in the New York City Department of Education as a New York City Urban Fellow. He worked on alternative high school environments for underprivileged students. From 2006-2008, he taught 2nd grade at Excellence Charter School of Bedford-Stuyvesant, the only all boys elementary charter school in New York City as a corps member for Teach For America. Following that, Chike taught English As a Second Language to high school seniors in Thailand as a Fulbright scholar.

In 2010, Chike graduated with a Master’s degree in Education Policy and Management student from the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). At HGSE, he was the Coordinator for G.I.V.E.S. (Graduate students Involved in Various Efforts of Service), a policy intern for the Massachusetts Secretary of Education Paul Reville and a research assistant on education and innovation for best selling author, Dr. Tony Wagner. In 2010, he worked in the Office of the General Counsel and the Office of Innovation and Improvement at the United States Department of Education. Currently, he is a joint MBA/MPA student between the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where he focuses on strategic management, and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, where he focuses on globalization and innovation. He serves as a Howard E. Mitchell Fellow and Public Service Fellow at Wharton and HKS respectively. This past summer, he was a summer associate with the Washington D.C. office of McKinsey and Company which houses the firm’s Public Sector Office, Social Sector Office and Education Practice.His focus is on how to reimagine the American education system so that all children and citizens, particularly the poorest, are prepared to be innovators in today’s global economy.