MEET DEVON CONLEY

Devon Conley is the current President of the Mountain View Whisman School Board. With a background in education and city planning, Devon knows firsthand how policies set at the city level impact the daily lives of children and families.

As a national award-winning teacher, Devon’s career at the intersection of cities and schools spans more than 22 years. Devon earned her BA in Architecture from Yale University and moved to the Bay Area after graduation. After her first two years of teaching in San Francisco, she left the classroom to earn a Master of City Planning at Berkeley and a Master of Arts in Education at Stanford. While in graduate school, she worked as a research associate at Berkeley’s Center for Cities and Schools and as a research assistant at Stanford University’s School of Education. Devon taught at Stevenson Elementary in Mountain View after graduate school, then joined the staff of a Title 1 school in San Jose. 

Devon put down roots in Mountain View in 2006. She was appointed to the City of Mountain View’s Parks and Recreation Commission in 2017, served as the League of Women Voters school board observer, and joined the Shoreline West Association of Neighbors steering committee that same year. She was elected to the Mountain View Whisman School Board in 2018.

Devon co-founded and serves as Vice President of the Digital Equity Coalition in Santa Clara County, is the California School Boards Association’s Regional Director for Region 20 (Santa Clara County) representing 31 school districts, and was on the PTA Executive Board at Gabriela Mistral Elementary School for six years. She has a rising 6th grader who will attend Graham Middle School and a 1-year-old.