Teaching special education in NY as a TFA corps member gave Max Lesser the proximity he needed to keenly identify educational inequity and the systemic factors that feed into it. Since his days in the classroom, Max has leveraged his teaching experience and legal knowledge to advance criminal justice reform, policies that could greatly improve the lives of the community he once served. Learn more about his journey.

Katelyn Roedner Sutter is a 2009 Greater New Orleans alum and works for the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF). She develops policy proposals and does legislative and regulatory advocacy around climate change and air quality.