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Dr. Tequilla Brownie is the Chief Executive Officer of TNTP where she leads all aspects of the organization’s efforts to transform education, so every young person, every generation, thrives.
Dr. Brownie’s own personal journey from a childhood spent in deep rural poverty to Yale to CEO of TNTP gives her a unique and timely perspective on the complexity of the public systems that undergird our nation. A researcher and school social worker, Dr. Brownie worked a decade in Memphis City Schools, leading efforts to increase teacher effectiveness.
She holds a BA in Psychology from Yale, an MS in Social Work from the University of Tennessee – Knoxville, and an Ed.D in Education Leadership and Policy Studies from the University of Memphis.
Dr. Brownie is a board member for Stand for Children, ForwARd Arkansas, Policy Innovators in Education (PIE) Network, Memphis Seeding Success, and Deans for Impact. She is also a Pahara Fellow, a Senior Fellow of FutureEd at Georgetown and a founding Leadership Committee member of Education Leaders of Color (EdLoC).