Teach For America Baltimore’s
Executive Director
Teach For America (TFA) Baltimore
LEE Baltimore member Normandi Amprey, Teach For America (TFA) Baltimore’s Executive Director, is a servant leader who is committed to equity, education, and community empowerment.
Originally from Atlanta, Georgia, Normandi has lived in Baltimore most of her adult life. She started her formal teaching career in 2009 in Baltimore City Schools through Teach For America (TFA), and went on to teach for six years—four of those in City Schools.
Normandi is passionate about eradicating poverty in disinvested communities, and values improving educational opportunities as a profound access point. Viewing philanthropy as a form of advocacy, she joined staff at TFA Baltimore in 2016 and has held several fundraising roles within the organization.
Teach For America Baltimore is focusing its efforts on critical need areas: teacher recruitment and retention, early childhood education, and college and career readiness. As the city’s most diverse source of new teachers, TFA strives to bring well-prepared, anti-racist, equity-driven teachers to the classroom.
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Main Street Alliance's
Executive Director
Main Street Alliance (MSA)
As the Executive Director of Main Street Alliance (MSA), LEE Maryland member Chanda Causer leads a fantastic team of dedicated members and staff who work hard to support true small businesses and fight against concentrated corporate power. MSA organizes small business owners around issues that matter most to businesses, their employees, and their community. MSA aims to build a powerful, self-funded, multi-racial, small business membership organization that can shift our economic narrative, wield political power, and win policy reform for small business owners, employees, and communities.
Chanda Causer is a skilled strategist with 25 years of collective experience in coaching, management, team building, and community organizing. As a career advocate working with local, regional, and national organizations, Chanda is skilled in building consensus among member-structured institutions, including faith-based organizations.
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Strong Schools Maryland’s
Executive Director
Strong Schools Maryland
LEE member Shamoyia Gardiner leads Strong Schools Maryland, a network of tens of thousands of individual grassroots supporters focused on securing the 2020 passage and 2021 veto override of the Blueprint for Maryland's Future, a law dedicating financial resources and critical policies to create a world-class system of public education in the state.
Now that the Blueprint is law, Strong Schools Maryland has shifted its mission to continue working with supporters across the state to monitor the implementation of the law; advocate for legislative and regulatory policy changes to further educational equity; and build the technical capacity of everyday Marylanders to hold state and local officials accountable to their responsibilities.
50CAN’s
Chief of Staff
50CAN
LEE member Samantha Kobbah is the Chief of Staff at 50CAN, a national education advocacy group that supports local advocates across the country to build the future of the American education system in their states through five policy promises to every family and child.
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Baltimore Homecoming’s
Deputy Director
Baltimore Homecoming
LEE member Matthew Reeds is a proud lifetime Baltimorean and is the Deputy Director for Baltimore Homecoming, an organization that mobilizes a network of Baltimore's most accomplished natives and alumni from around the U.S. and the world to invest in the city.
Matthew has received numerous awards and recognitions, most recently named to HBCU Buzz’s Top 30 under 30 List. In 2019, Matthew and his wife founded the Reeds Fund, which has invested thousands of dollars into scholarships for young adults who are autistic.
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