Our Organization

Teach For America is an extraordinary network of leaders who are driving impact across the country to achieve our vision that one day, all children in our country will have the opportunity to achieve an excellent education.
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Who We Are

Teach For America is a force of over 70,000 alumni, corps members, and Ignite Fellows working in over 9,000 schools nationwide. As a collective—educators, advocates, entrepreneurs, policymakers, and community members—we fight for the aspirations of students and their families. Together, we shape the conversation about what's possible. From classrooms to districts to statehouses across America, we’re reimagining education to realize the day when every child has the opportunity to learn, to grow, to influence, and to lead.

Significant progress in educational outcomes is happening in communities across the country. And the Teach For America network is playing an essential role.

Our TFA Network

Teach For America is a community of changemakers and coalition-builders. We are leaders who teach, teachers who lead. Our network is large and growing every day.

More than

4K

corps members

More than

66K

alumni

Nearly

2.2K

Ignite Fellows

Through teaching in our public schools and partnering with children and families in communities that are most in need, this network of changemakers is helping strengthen the education system and shape the future of our country.
Our Regions

Executive Team

Our executive team includes national and local leaders who have devoted their careers to ensuring educational excellence for all, several of whom are Teach For America alumni. Regardless of whether they started their career as corps members, our executives bring decades of experience from the education field and other fields that impact education.

Executive Cabinet

Our Executive Cabinet is Teach For America's primary governing body and is responsible for our overall progress towards our 10 year goal.
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Aneesh Sohoni

Twin Cities '09

Chief Executive Officer

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Aneesh Sohoni is the CEO of Teach For America. Aneesh steps into this role after serving as the Chief Executive Officer of One Million Degrees (OMD), a nonprofit dedicated to accelerating the progress of community college students towards economic mobility. Since 2021, Aneesh has led OMD to significant growth, quadrupling the number of students served across the City Colleges of Chicago and launching a new advisory and capacity-building service model to expand OMD's national impact.

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Jemina Bernard

President and Chief Operating Officer

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Jemina R. Bernard serves as Teach For America's President & Chief Operating Officer, bringing over two decades of invaluable leadership and service in education. In this role, she is dedicated to leading the organization to make meaningful progress for students across the country.

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Sunanna Chand

Greater Baton Rouge '10

Executive Director, The Reinvention Lab

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Sunanna leads the Reinvention Lab, Teach For America’s future of learning R&D engine. The Lab creates offerings that expand the capacity of educators to create, build, imagine, and wonder, so that they can design engaging, relevant, learning experiences that are fair for all with and for young people. In a world of exponential technological and societal change, the Reinvention Lab helps TFA act our way into what’s around the corner.

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Tracy-Elizabeth Clay

Executive Vice President, People & Administration

Teach For America

With a law degree from Harvard Law School, Tracy-Elizabeth Clay uses her knowledge of local and state policy advocacy, legal and risk management to support organizational needs to pursue Teach For America’s mission.  

Steve Majors, Executive Vice President, Chief External Affairs Officer

Steve Majors

Executive Vice President, Chief External Affairs Officer

Teach For America

Steve Majors is the Chief External Affairs Officer at Teach For America. In this role, Steve leads 5 exceptional teams with his over two decades of extensive experience in communications, marketing, and media.

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Alan Murray

Executive Vice President, Chief Digital & Technology Officer

Teach For America

Alan Murray is the Chief Digital & Technology Officer and leader of the Technology & Digital Experience group at Teach For America.  He leads a dynamic team of digital and IT professionals through the division’s transformation, bringing an agile mindset and focusing on turning IT into a strategic engine for growth.

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Joy Okoro

Greater New Orleans '08

Executive Vice President, Field Impact & Integration

Teach For America

Joy leads Teach For America’s regional teams and the executive leadership body, who are charged with ensuring our network of 5,000+ corps members (teachers), 60,000+ alumni and 1000+ staff members deliver on our promise to partner to create local change and expand educational opportunities for all students -- particularly Black students, Indigenous students, students of color and students living in poverty.

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Whitney Petersmeyer

Executive Vice President, Growth

Teach For America

Whitney Petersmeyer is the Executive Vice President for Growth at Teach For America. She leads the work of the teams focused on scaling talent offerings through collaborative partnerships, addressing educational disparities and fueling Teach For America’s talent pool growth.

Dr. Barbara Logan Smith

Chief of Experience & Belonging

Teach For America

Dr. Barbara Logan Smith is the Chief of Experience & Belonging at Teach For America. With 25 years of dedicated service in education, in this role, she leads and directs a passionate team committed to amplifying the mission of Teach For America by fostering a sense of belonging and fairness for all, for all backgrounds. 

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Noemi Wierwille

New Jersey '01

Executive Vice President, Chief Learning Officer

Teach For America

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. 

Regional Leadership Teams

Teach For America has more than 50 regions, each led by an executive director and an advisory board. To learn more about our regional leadership and regional boards, visit our individual region websites.

Our Regions

Board of Directors

Our Board of Directors plays a critical role in developing Teach For America’s strategic plan and ensuring that we are able to meet the ambitious goals we set for ourselves.

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Lifetime Directors

Our Lifetime Directors have played a critical role on our national board for many years. We are deeply grateful for the ongoing advice, support, and advocacy that they continue to provide.

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National Advisory Board of The Collective

The Collective is Teach For America's association for alumni of color. The National Advisory Board of the Collective is composed of alumni of color who help lead national initiatives and provide strategic guidance to Teach For America's senior leadership.

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