Wordna
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Wordna serves as our Vice President, People & Culture.  She previously worked for DC Public Schools as their Manager of Equity & Diversity.  Wordna has spent more than a decade working in the education and non-profit fields.  She started her career as a Teach For America corps member teaching third grade in Houston, TX.  She went on to manage community outreach efforts for local charter schools and non-profit organizations in Washington, DC, including serving as National Field Director for GirlTrek, the nation's largest public health movement organizing Black women.  

Wordna earned a B.A. in History from Harvard University and an M.A. in Change Leadership from Columbia University.  She, her husband, and two children live in Washington, D.C.