Iris has served as President & Chief Executive Officer of the "I Have A Dream" Foundation since June 2007. Prior to this role, she served as Teach For America's New York City Executive Director, where she led a major expansion and grew the local corps from 250 to 1,000 teachers. Previously, she worked as a management consultant with McKinsey & Company.

Iris got her start in education as a 1990 charter corps member with Teach For America in New York City, where she taught fourth and fifth graders for three years at P.S. 307 in Brooklyn. After completing the Coro Fellows Program in 1993-94, Iris joined Teach For America's national staff, serving as Director of Public Affairs and then Vice President of Program, where from 1995-98 she led the recruitment, selection, training, and ongoing support of corps members nationwide.

Iris graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in East Asian Studies and earned her J.D./M.B.A. degree from Harvard University. She is a member of the New York Bar.