John White began serving as CEO of Great Minds in 2025. He joined the Great Minds team as Chief Success Officer in 2022. Under his leadership, the company more than doubled the size of its services business while also building new customer success, research, and public policy functions. John has also spearheaded partnerships with states across the country, including Texas, where Great Minds provides print, digital, and implementation support for Bluebonnet Math, the new state-approved open education curriculum resource.

John previously served as Louisiana State Superintendent of Education. In that role, John led efforts to unify the state’s fragmented early childhood system, modernize curriculum, improve teacher preparation, and overhaul state educational standards. Over the decade spanning John’s tenure, Louisiana ranked in the top 10 states for improvement on every one of the four main Nation’s Report Card (NAEP) tests.

Before that, John led the Louisiana Recovery School District, helping transform New Orleans schools after Hurricane Katrina, and was Deputy Chancellor for the New York City Department of Education. He served as Executive Director of Teach For America Chicago and Teach For America New Jersey. John started his career teaching high school English in Jersey City, N.J.

John is co-founder of Propel America, a non-profit startup connecting recent high school graduates with good first jobs, and Watershed Advisors, a consultancy to governments scaling high-impact education initiatives. He is a director at the Boston-based training company QBS; at Accelerate, which supports education leaders; and at New Schools for New Orleans. John also is an Education Advisory Council member at the global consultancy Alvarez & Marsal.

John earned a bachelor’s degree with distinction from the University of Virginia, a master’s degree in public administration from New York University, and doctorate in education from Johns Hopkins University. He lives in New Orleans with his wife and three children.

Ron Beit is the founding partner and CEO of RBH Group, LLC and president of RBH Management, LLC, asset and property management companies.

Julie Jackson is the president of Uncommon Schools, a network of 55 public charter schools serving 20,000 students across six regions located in Newark, Camden, New York City, Rochester, Troy, and Boston. Uncommon Schools operates outstanding urban public schools that close the achievement gap and prepare students from low-income communities to graduate from college.

Susan Asiyanbi is responsible for providing a coherent, cohesive, and integrated leadership development experience for Teach For America’s admitted recruits, corps members, alumni, and staff.

Juliana Worrell is the chief schools officer, overseeing grades K-8 at Uncommon Schools. Under Juliana’s leadership, her schools have consistently outperformed end-of-year state exam averages, with nearly all outperforming their respective states’ highest performing subgroups.

Tahina Perez is a Teach For America alumni and Executive Director of Teach For America New Jersey.

Taylor Martin has taken his knowledge of being a teacher and creates custom, culturally responsive curriculum and implementation solutions for schools across the country as a senior consultant at Public Consulting Group.

Nat Natarajan first learned the value of building relationships as a middle school math teacher with the corps. Years later, he remains involved in education in his role as an investment banker working on a technology team whose focus is in edtech.

After his time with Teach For America, Fade Ojeikere currently works with teachers to identify growth areas and help them to improve as effective educators.

Noemi Wierwille is a 2001 TFA New Jersey Alumna who has served as an educator and school leader inside and outside the United States. She uses her passion for education and experiences to help inform her leadership in driving programmatic improvements across org.