Sean Waldheim
Vice President, Admissions
Teach For America
Region: Greater New Orleans, '00
Sean Waldheim is the vice president of admissions at Teach For America. He was a 2000 Greater New Orleans corps member and joined Teach For America's staff in 2002.
Founder and Principal Consultant
Danitra Blue Consulting
Region: Greater New Orleans, '13
As a Black woman from rural Georgia and the first person in her immediate family to graduate college, Danitra Wansley was driven to find a field that would allow her to serve the communities that needed her most.
Litigation & Trial Practice Attorney
Alston & Bird LLP
Region: Greater New Orleans, '11
Teaching middle school special education enabled Laura Komarek to be an advocate for students in her law career. Learn how her time as a Teach For America corps member transformed her perspective.
Region: Greater New Orleans, '13
Kelly Krag-Arnold (Greater New Orleans-Louisiana Delta ’13)
Advisor to the Deputy Director of Management, Office of Management and Budget
The White House
Region: Greater New Orleans, '14
Suzy Wang started her time with Teach For America by overcoming a tough first day to thriving in front of the classroom.
Founder & CEO
Braven
Region: Greater New Orleans, '95
Aimee Eubanks Davis spent the majority of her career at Teach For America, where she served as the Vice President of New Site Development, Executive Vice President of People, and eventually led TFA’s Public Affairs and Communications teams, before departing to found Braven in 2013.
Alan Chazaro
Alan Chazaro (page 33), a Greater New Orleans ’09 alumnus, is a freelance writer and the author of two books of poetry, This Is Not a Frank Ocean Cover Album (Black Lawrence Press, 2019) and the forthcoming Piñata Theory (Black Lawrence Press, 2020). He is a graduate of June Jordan’s Poetry for the People program at UC Berkeley. He teaches graduate writing at the University of San Francisco and runs HeadFake, an online zine about basketball. alanchazaro.com
Executive Director, Teach For America Greater New Orleans
Ge’ron Tatum is a lifelong learner who developed his passion for education and equity at a young age as a student in Louisiana public schools. With deep roots in the Acadiana region of Louisiana, he has made it his life's mission to fight for educational equity for students and families from neighborhoods just like his.
California State Director
Environmental Defense Fund
Region: Greater New Orleans, '09
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.