Our 12,000 alumni are a leadership force - working from within education and from every sector to effect fundamental change.

Impact in Atlanta

Since 2000, corps members and alumni have made an indelible impact on our city. Currently, more than 200 corps members and 190 alumni are teaching in classrooms throughout the greater Atlanta area. Our corps members and alumni are collectively impacting the lives of an estimated 25,000 students in the classroom. At the same time, more than 700 alumni call Atlanta home, working from all sectors to continue to effect lasting, systemic change.

Five of our alumni are serving as principals while others are serving in key positions in Atlanta Public Schools, Fulton County Schools, Gwinnett County Schools, Dekalb County Schools, Clayton County Schools, KIPP, and the Georgia Department of Education, as well as in law, finance, business and policy.

We have two alumni currently running for public office. In addition, three alumni are full-time professors at Georgia State and the University of Georgia. The potential for impact is also found through alumni working at the Center for Disease Control, the United States Attorney's Office, Coca-Cola, and the United Way.

Details on our alumni community*
Atlanta alumni facts and network Five alumni are leading Atlanta schools A growing number of alumni hold other school leadership positions
Nearly 600 alumni reside in the greater Atlanta area Six alumni are leading schools in Metro-Atlanta as principals or executive directors More than 250 alumni donated time or money to Teach For America last year 65 alumni are currently in graduate school, studying public policy, education, business, law, medicine, the social sciences, and other fields. Alumni breakdown A sampling of where alumni taught Next: Five alumni are leading Atlanta schools » Scott Painter (Atlanta, '00) Principal South Atlanta High School School of Engineering and Computer Sciences Peter McKnight (Atlanta, '02) Principal South Atlanta High School School of Law and Social Justice Jondre Pryor (Bay, '94) Principal KIPP South Fulton Academy Kimberly Karaclidis (Atlanta, '00) Principal KIPP WAYS Academy Edwin Chang (Atlanta, '01) Principal KIPP STRIVE Academy Next: A growing number of alumni hold other school leadership positions » David Jernigan (Atlanta '00) Executive Director, KIPP Metro-Atlanta Collaborative Alicia Pettus (Atlanta '01) Assistant Principal, Benefield Elementary School Mini'imah Rasheed (Atlanta '01) Assistant Principal, J.E. Richards Middle School Jerry Petrus (New York '90) Assistant Principal, Columbia High School Kelli Spencer (Atlanta '00) Assistant Principal, Chapel Hill Elementary School Thomas McBryde (Atlanta '00) Assistant Principal, Riverdale Middle School Tonya Phipps (Atlanta '03) Dean of Students, KIPP South Fulton Academy Andrew Jobson (Eastern North Carolina '90) Academic Dean, Riverside Military Academy Crystal Perry (Atlanta '00) Assistant Principal, Long Middle School Next: Atlanta alumni facts and network

Details on our alumni community*

Atlanta alumni facts and network
Five alumni are leading Atlanta schools
A growing number of alumni hold other school leadership positions

Nearly 600 alumni reside in the greater Atlanta area

Six alumni are leading schools in Metro-Atlanta as principals or executive directors

More than 250 alumni donated time or money to Teach For America last year

65 alumni are currently in graduate school, studying public policy, education, business, law, medicine, the social sciences, and other fields.

Alumni breakdown

A sampling of where alumni taught

Next: Five alumni are leading Atlanta schools »

Scott Painter (Atlanta, '00)
Principal South Atlanta High School School of Engineering and Computer Sciences

Peter McKnight (Atlanta, '02)
Principal South Atlanta High School School of Law and Social Justice

Jondre Pryor (Bay, '94)
Principal KIPP South Fulton Academy

Kimberly Karaclidis (Atlanta, '00)
Principal KIPP WAYS Academy

Edwin Chang (Atlanta, '01)
Principal KIPP STRIVE Academy

Next: A growing number of alumni hold other school leadership positions »

David Jernigan (Atlanta '00)
Executive Director, KIPP Metro-Atlanta Collaborative

Alicia Pettus (Atlanta '01)
Assistant Principal, Benefield Elementary School

Mini'imah Rasheed (Atlanta '01)
Assistant Principal, J.E. Richards Middle School

Jerry Petrus (New York '90)
Assistant Principal, Columbia High School

Kelli Spencer (Atlanta '00)
Assistant Principal, Chapel Hill Elementary School

Thomas McBryde (Atlanta '00)
Assistant Principal, Riverdale Middle School

Tonya Phipps (Atlanta '03)
Dean of Students, KIPP South Fulton Academy

Andrew Jobson (Eastern North Carolina '90)
Academic Dean, Riverside Military Academy

Crystal Perry (Atlanta '00)
Assistant Principal, Long Middle School

Next: Atlanta alumni facts and network

*Statistics about our alumni change rapidly as former corps members move to expand their impact by taking on new leadership opportunities, and as our alumni force as a whole expands every year. As a result, all statistics on this page are subject to change.