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Kate Walsh, President
kwalsh@nctq.org
Kate Walsh has served as the president of the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) since 2002. Before coming to NCTQ, she worked for the Core Knowledge Foundation, the Baltimore City Public Schools and The Abell Foundation in Baltimore, Maryland. Her work has tackled a broad spectrum of children's educational needs--from founding the successful Ingenuity Project for gifted Baltimore City students to starting a unique boarding school located in Kenya for the purpose of educating at-risk boys. Ms. Walsh also started the first alternative certification program for teachers in Maryland, a project which led to her strong interest in teacher quality. She has authored a number of papers on the subject of teacher quality. A long-time resident of Baltimore, Ms. Walsh also serves on the Maryland State Board of Education.
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Sandi Jacobs, Vice President
sjacobs@nctq.org
Sandi comes to NCTQ having most recently worked at the U.S. Department of Education as a Senior Education Program Specialist for the Reading First and Comprehensive School Reform Demonstration programs. Prior to that, she taught 4th and 5th grade for nearly a decade at Public School 9 in Brooklyn. Ms. Jacobs was a Presidential Management Intern and a charter corps member of Teach For America. She holds a MA in sociology of education from Columbia University's Teachers College and a BA in history from Columbia College.
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Emily Cohen, District Policy Director
ecohen@nctq.org
Emily has worked at NCTQ since 2005 managing the organization's work on collective bargaining. Prior to joining NCTQ she taught in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas as a Teach For America corps member. She is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Julie Greenberg, Senior Policy Director
jgreenberg@nctq.org
Julie taught secondary math for 13 years in Montgomery County (MD) schools before joining NCTQ. Prior to teaching, she worked as a policy analyst for state government in Wisconsin and Minnesota, and for Yale University's Institution for Social and Policy Studies. She holds a BA (geology, Carleton College), a MS (water resources management, University of Wisconsin), and a MAT (secondary math, American University).
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Robert Rickenbrode, Teacher Preparation Studies Director
rrickenbrode@nctq.org
Robert Rickenbrode served as the Chief Academic Officer and
mathematics/computer science teacher for the Cesar Chavez Charter
Schools in DC for nine years prior to joining NCTQ. Before that, he
worked in the San Juan School District in Utah and for seven years was
a member of the 'Ndahoo'aah Summer Program at Monument Valley High
School. He is on the board of the Bryant Woods Montessori School in
Maryland. He holds a MA in applied economics from Johns Hopkins
University and a BS in economics from the California Institute of
Technology.
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Rich Shea, Communications Director
rshea@nctq.org
Before arriving at NCTQ, Rich worked as a journalist for 20 years. As a reporter and editor for newspapers in New Jersey and Florida, he covered education extensively, writing about students, teachers, and administrators. For six years, he was executive editor of Teacher Magazine, which was nominated for a National Magazine Award in General Excellence under his tutelage. Rich is the father of two children who attend public schools.
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Pat Giles, Office Manager
pgiles@nctq.org
Pat has an extensive telecommunications background as a technical project manager with AT&T for 27 years. Since retiring from AT&T she has moved away from the corporate work environment, and into the satisfying world of non-profit organizations. Prior to coming to NCTQ, she served as Director of Administration at the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation (VVAF), in that capacity she traveled in Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand.
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Sarah Brody , Policy Analyst
sbrody@nctq.org
Prior to joining NCTQ, Sarah was a Teach For America corps member and taught high school English in Philadelphia for three years. She holds an MS in Education from the University of Pennsylvania and a BA in English and history from Emory University.
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Laura Pomerance, Policy Analyst
lpomerance@nctq.org
Laura Pomerance taught middle school and high school physics and
biology for five years before joining NCTQ. She has also worked in
science education policy for the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, as a legislative assistant in the Maryland
State Legislature, and in Congress. She holds a M.Ed in secondary
education from the University of Maryland, College Park and a BA in
physics and biology from Swarthmore College.
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Kent Harrel, Research Analyst
kharrel@nctq.org
Kent Harrel began working at NCTQ in 2009. Prior to joining, Kent worked as a research assistant at non-profit organizations and think-tanks in the Washington, DC area. He holds a BA in international studies from American University, where he focused on U.S. foreign policy in Eastern Europe and Eurasia. Kent wrote his thesis on weapons and human trafficking in the former Soviet republic of Moldova.
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Chase Nordengren, Research Analyst
cnordengren@nctq.org
Before coming to NCTQ, Chase Nordengren received a BA in Politics from
the Catholic University of America in January 2010, where his thesis
focused on seed patents and Catholic social thought. Interested
primarily in education reform and the achievement gap, Chase interned
on Capitol Hill and in two think tanks in the DC area during his
undergraduate career, and has done research on rural health care
provider retention and social capital in urban public school
leadership.
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Research Analysts:
Aileen Corso, Valerie Franck, Kate Kelliher, Trish Madden, Betsy McCorry, Stephanie Maltz, Tracey Myers-Preston, and Kelly Rosen
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