Rory Pullens

Rory Pullens is head of school and chief executive officer at the Duke Ellington School of the Arts whose inner city urban students post annual graduation rates of 98 percent and college acceptance rates of 95 percent.

Prior to this appointment, Pullens spent over a decade as an arts administrator in Denver Colorado where he designed the first elementary arts school in Denver Public Schools and two charter school programs and Los Angeles California where his prior credits spanned nearly two decades as a writer/director/producer in the entertainment industry.

Pullens currently sits on the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Advisory Board, the Ellington Fund Board, and is 1st Vice-President of the national Arts School Network Board.