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Board Members and Staff

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Isabella Cass

Program Manager

Isabella (Izzie) Cass is the Program Manager at the Dyslexia Alliance for Black Children. Her work is driven by a desire to apply resourcefulness, creativity, and efficiency to projects impacting structural inequities, particularly prison reform.

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Tamika Taylor

Board Member, Treasurer

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Craig D. Barrett

Board Member

Craig D. Barrett is a senior counsel in the Government Contracts Group in Crowell & Moring's Washington,
D.C. office.

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Ptahra Jeppe

Advisory Board Member

Ptahra Jeppe is a dedicated disability civil rights attorney. Ms. Jeppe received her J.D. magna

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Winnie Joy

Chief Knowledge Officer

Winifred (Winnie) Joy, a Reading Interventionist and Educational Consultant, has years of experience working in districts nationally as a school psychologist.

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Micah G. Wittmer, PhD, A/OGA

Board Member

Dr. Micah Wittmer is an Orton Gillingham Academy Associate and the founder of Liberated Literacy LLC, an education consulting and tutoring company that provides services for educators and families of adolescents.

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Resha Conroy

Founder and Executive Director

Resha Conroy brings over a decade of experience in charter school administration and non-profit management.

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Debbie Meyer

Chief Operating Officer

Debbie Meyer has a lengthy professional career in non-profit management and fundraising.

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Edwin Mathieu

Board Member, Chair

Edwin Mathieu is a doctoral candidate at St. John’s University studying the impacts of implicit racial bias
on students of African descent.

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Akeela Azcuy, PhD

Board Member

Dr. Azcuy is a co-founder of the Literacy Academy Collective (LAC), a school design team that is creating the first New York City Department of Education public school designed to educate children with language-based learning disabilities.

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Heather Gregory

Board Member

Heather Gregory has a range of education and administration experience, stretching over 20+ years from preschool to adult education.

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