Our People

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Cristian

KIPP Texas Public Schools-San Antonio

"KIPP has made me a better student...If you do your work, if you're staying on top of it, you feel accomplished because the teachers will tell you about it. And even the students will, too. It's all about pushing other kids up and pushing yourself up."

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Naima

KIPP Texas Public Schools-San Antonio

"The best part about KIPP teachers is their communication and the trust that you can have for them. I trust them a lot because of the way they make me feel and the way they trust me." 

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Patricia

KIPP Texas Public Schools-San Antonio

"Right now I'm taking a lot of IB classes and those classes have helped me like a lot. It's helping me see how college is going to work and what type of work is going to be shown in college."

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Sebastian

KIPP Texas Public Schools-San Antonio

"KIPP has helped me become the person I want to be by giving me great examples of adults in my life that are just genuinely good people; people who care about you and who want to see you do good."

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Bianca

KIPP Texas Public Schools-San Antonio

"I feel safe when I walk through the doors at school because I know if I need help, it's there and I will get it."

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Cameron Franklin

KIPP Metro Atlanta Public Schools

"I want to be a male role model to all my kids."

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Keosha Moon

KIPP Metro Atlanta Public Schools

"I think the part that I love the most about working at KIPP is that it's rare that you really get to wake up and do different aspects of what you love every day."

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Paris Allen

KIPP Metro Atlanta Public Schools

"We think about space and grace. The space for you to flourish, coaching and development of teachers being high priority, but ultimately equity at the top of every leader's minds, every teacher's mind."

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Tasha Davis

KIPP Metro Atlanta Public Schools

"Something I always think about as a principal is who will be next in my shoes and who will be after that and how will we ensure that we never lose our brand of our school?"

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Marquetta

KIPP NYC Public Schools

“The teachers care about you on a personal level and if you’re ever struggling in school, they don’t just say it’s because you’re a bad student, they ask you ‘What’s going on at home?’ or ‘Are you juggling too many things?’ So it’s like being in a big family.”

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Christopher

KIPP NYC Public Schools

“It’s not about how you get on the ground. It’s about how you get up.”

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Kelby Hicks

Legal Analyst, Lexdan LLC

“Part of the whole essence of KIPP, in ENC (Eastern North Carolina) in particular, was transforming our minds beyond this peanut field and empowering us to understand that we can truly change the world.”   

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Brandi Vardiman

KIPP NYC Public Schools

“I want them to really internalize this idea that the way that you figure out things is through trial and error. I think that’s really, really important in communities of color.”   

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Daisy Salazar-Garza

KIPP SoCal Public Schools

“I really want us to see the beauty and the assets that our community brings and see this home and school connection flourish in a way that that hasn’t existed before in education.”

alumni

Avonda Fogan

Chief of Staff, Strategy Risks

“I spent a lot of time in China, and my work was primarily with an NGO called US-China Strong Foundation, where I was encouraging American students to study Mandarin and study abroad in China.”