Founding Principal of the top ranking Leaders of Excellence, Advocacy, and Discovery (LEAD) School in the Bronx; Teacher; Reading Specialist; Administrator; Recipient of the 2017 Ryan Award for "Transformative School Leader" and the 2020 National Center for Urban School's Award for "Transformation for Best Urban School"; Selected as the 2018 Cahn Fellows Program for Distinguished Principals at Teachers College, Columbia University; Former Common Core Fellow at the NYC Department of Education