Courtney believes deeply in the power of community. She works hand-in-hand with educators and families in Baltimore to create excellent opportunities for students.

Once an 8th grade math teacher, track coach, and union rep, Johannah’s career has always focused on equity for all students. She’s led in roles at the NYC DOE, the Governor’s office, Bank Street College of Education, and now the Walton Foundation.

As a first-generation college student from a low-income family, Nibette was fully aware of the challenges her second-grade students faced. She remains committed to ending educational inequity.

After Yesenia Castro graduated from Stanford and joined TFA, her experience teaching with the corps in New York would transform her trajectory and propel her into the career she holds now as principal at KIPP Raíces Academy in Los Angeles.