Hilary Darilek

Hilary Darilek currently serves as the chief executive officer of E.L. Haynes Public Charter School. E.L. Haynes is an award-winning Pre-K through 12th grade school in Washington, DC serving 1,150 diverse students from across the city. Before E.L. Haynes, Hilary served as a deputy chief and led the Principal Effectiveness division at DC Public Schools (DCPS) for almost seven years. In this role, she oversaw the systems design and implementation of the recruitment, selection, development, evaluation, and retention of school leaders for all 113 DC Public Schools. Prior to DCPS, Hilary served as managing director of the DC program of New Leaders, a leading, national urban principal training program working with both the district and charter schools of the city. She began her career as a high-performing middle school math and science teacher in Baltimore, Maryland and as an education researcher at the RAND Corporation. She is a Washington, DC native and committed to her work in service of the city's students.