Brandon McNeice

Brandon McNeice is a writer, speaker, and Head of School at Cornerstone Christian Academy in Southwest Philadelphia. Brandon's career spans a wide range of educational settings, from founding a BASIS Independent campus in Manhattan to admissions and school leadership roles in the San Francisco Bay Area and global recruiting at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies. He is a 2026 honoree of the Philadelphia Business Journal's 40 Under 40 and a 2026 Education Policy Fellow at the Institute for Educational Leadership, and was selected for the Klingenstein Heads of Schools program at Teachers College, Columbia University, and the National Institute of Urban School Leaders at Harvard.

He writes and speaks about education, institutional renewal, and the moral demands of leadership. His essays have appeared in Commonweal, Plough, The Philadelphia Citizen, Christian Scholar's Review, and elsewhere, and his fiction and poetry in The Los Angeles Review, Hunger Mountain, and other journals. His debut essay collection, The Grief and the Gathering, is forthcoming from Party Wall Press.