Our Board
Local Leadership
Dr. Monique Perry-Graves
Executive Director
Teach For America North Carolina Regions
Dr. Monique Perry-Graves is an award-winning social impact leader with a deep commitment to expanding educational equity and access. For over twenty years she has aligned her personal and professional life to this commitment, born from her lived experience and generational family commitment to education.
Meet Our Board
BOARD CHAIR
LaLecha Watkins
Solutions Business Planning Principal Netapp
Durham, NC
TFA National Council Member
Inez Ribustello
Owner of On The Square and Tarboro Brewing Company
Tarboro, NC
BOARD MEMBER
Alex Sutherland
Eastern North Carolina
09
President and Investment Advisor Lifeplan Group
Raleigh, NC
BOARD MEMBER
Henry Crews
Founder of Micro Market Farms
Henderson, NC
BOARD MEMBER
Hannah Fussell
Miami-Dade
14
Chief Creative Officer at Nugget
Durham, NC
BOARD MEMBER
Kelly Anne Mudd
Eastern North Carolina
06
Principal Martin Millennium Academy
Tarboro, NC
BOARD MEMBER
Leslie Ann Jackson
Vice President of Community Investment and Engagement at North Carolina Community Foundation
Raleigh, NC
BOARD MEMBER
Dr. Levy Brown
Chief Academic Officer
NC Community College System
BOARD MEMBER
Molly Osborne
Greater New Orleans
12
Director of News and Policy at EducationNC
Tarboro, NC
BOARD MEMBER
Vichi Jagannathan
Eastern North Carolina
11
Co-Founder Rural Opportunity Institute
Tarboro, NC