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

Alumni impact

As one of Teach For America’s charter regions, corps members and alumni have made an indelible impact on our city. Currently, nearly 360 corps members are teaching in classrooms throughout the greater Los Angeles area, impacting the lives of an estimated 25,000 students. At the same time, more than 1,000 alumni call Los Angeles home, working from all sectors to continue to effect lasting, systemic change.

Forty-two of our alumni are serving as principals while others are serving in key positions at Charters, Partnership Schools, union leadership as well as in law, finance, business and policy. Five alumni currently hold public elected offices across Los Angeles.

Details on our alumni community*

1,056 alumni reside in the greater Los Angeles area and 2,040 alumni reside in California

42 alumni are leading schools in Los Angeles as principals or executive directors

5 Los Angeles alumni are public elected officials

460 Los Angeles alumni donated time or money to Teach For America last year

150 Los Angeles alumni donated time or money to Teach For America this year to date

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

1,000 Corps Members have been placed in Los Angeles since 1990, teaching a total of nearly 206,000 Los Angeles children

700 Los Angeles alumni are still involved in education, approximately 350 of which are still at K-12 sites

Alumni Breakdown

Alumni Breakdown

A sampling of where alumni taught

A sampling of where alumni taught

Rachelle Alexander (Los Angeles '95)
Principal, Animo Locke Charter High School

Hoff Brooks (Los Angeles '90)
Principal, Catskill Elementary School

Tommy Chang (Los Angeles '97)
Principal, Animo Venice Charter High School

Derrick Chau (Los Angeles '97)
Principal, College Ready Math & Science Charter

Christina M. Cobb (Rio Grande Valle '93)
Principal, Frank D. Lanterman High School

Carlos Cortez (New York City '99)
Principal, New Village Charter High School

William Crean (Los Angeles '90)
Principal, Lakeview Elementary School

Claire Gorman Alvarez (Los Angeles '97)
Principal, Patrick Henry Elementary School

Ruth Esseln (Los Angeles '97)
Principal, Woodrow Wilson Middle School

Gordon Gibbings (Los Angeles '99)
Principal, Animo South LA High School

Jeff Hilger (Los Angeles '92)
Principal, Stella Middle Charter Academy

Jennifer Hughes (Los Angeles '02)
Principal, Inner City Education Foundation

Jamie Jameson (Los Angeles '03)
Principal, STAR Prep Academy

Julie Kane (Los Angeles '91)
Principal, Selma Elementary School

Lucia Karaptian (Los Angeles '92)
Principal, Billy Mitchell Elementary School

Lauren Kimbell (Los Angeles '92)
Principal, Los Cerritos Elementary School

Jeffrey Lagozzino (Los Angeles '91)
Principal, La Primaria Elementary School

Marina Lang (Los Angeles '99)
Principal, Stephen S. Wise Elementary School

Martin Leon (Los Angeles '92)
Principal, Carson Street Elementary School

Brian Lucas (Los Angeles '91)
Principal, Latona Elementary School

Burnadette Lucas (Los Angeles '91)
Principal, Melrose Elementary School

Christopher Lund (Los Angeles '91)
Principal, Roosevelt Elementary School

Angella Martinez (Los Angeles '01)
Principal, KIPP Los Angeles College Preparatory

Kirk McGinnis (Los Angeles '94)
Principal, Mayflower Elementary School

Katherine Nelson (Los Angeles '92)
Principal, Watts Learning Center Charter

Richard Newman (Los Angeles '94)
Principal, Edison Elementary School

Natalie Rolhaus Burton (Los Angeles '91)
Principal, Roosevelt Elementary School

Wanda Sequeria (Los Angeles '95)
Principal, Southeast Middle School

Felicia Sexsmith (Los Angeles '96)
Principal, Carpinteria Middle School

Kate Sobel (Los Angeles '98)
Principal, Camino Nuevo Harvard Site

Chad Soleo (Los Angeles '01)
Principal, Animo-Pat Brown

Kendra Wallace (Los Angeles '95)
Principal, Webster Middle School

Amber Young (Los Angeles '01)
Principal, KIPP Raices Academy

Drew Furedi (Baltimore '98)
Executive Director, Loyola Marymount Family of Schools

Amy Dresser-Held (Phoenix '97)
Executive Director, Pacific Palisades Charter High School

Ted Hamory (Los Angeles '91)
Co-Director, The New City Schoool

John Lee (Baltimore '99)
Executive Director, Larchmont Schools

Stephanie Lee (Los Angeles '90)
Co-Director, The New City Schoool

Rayann Palazzo (Los Angeles '90)
Director, Northwood Montessori School

Ana Ponce (Los Angeles '91)
Executive Director, Camino Nuevo Charter Schools

Chrissy Rodriguez-Moore (Bay Area '99)
Small School Leader, John Liechty Middle School

Robert Schwartz (Los Angeles '94)
Chief Academic Officer, Inner City Education Foundation

Layla Avila (Los Angeles '97)
Whittier School Board Member

Danielle Duran (Los Angeles '04)
Downtown Neighborhood Council

Eric DeSobe (Los Angeles '01)
Del Rey Neighborhood Council

Brett Flater (Los Angeles '04)
Del Rey Neighborhood Council

Steve Zimmer (Los Angeles '92)
LAUSD School Board Member, District 4

*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.