See Forever Foundation & Maya Angelou Public Charter School

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MAPCS Board of Directors

Geral Bittle	James Forman, Jr.	Dr. Lucretia Murphy
Yvonne Brockenberry	Norman Gold	Dr. Edith S. Tatel
Jane Dimyan-Ehrenfeld	Dr. Anne Kendall	Heather Wathington
David Domenici	Peggy Long


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David Domenici (Co-Founder)	David Domenici is a co-founder of the See Forever Foundation. He now serves as chair of the See Forever Board of Directors and is a founding board member of the Maya Angelou Public Charter School Board. He also recently transitioned into serving as the Principal at the Oak Hill School, DC’s secure facility for youth who have been adjudicated delinquent, now currently being operated by the See Forever Foundation. He served as the executive director of See Forever until July 2006 and the school’s principal from its founding until June 2002. He has worked with our target population since the inception of Project SOAR, the predecessor program to See Forever and Maya Angelou in 1995. His work experience includes teaching school full-time in D.C. for one year, an internship at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, two years in finance on Wall Street, and three years in general practice at the law firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering. He also served for eight years as the volunteer director of DCWorks, a summer pre-college program for at-risk teens from DC, Philadelphia, and New York. Domenici is a 1992 graduate of Stanford Law School, an Echoing Green Fellow (1998), a member of the 1998-1999 Washington Post Principals Leadership Institute, and a 2002 Ashoka Fellow.
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James Forman, Jr. (Chair & Co-Founder)	James Forman is a co-founder of See Forever. He now serves as Chair of the Maya Angelou Public Charter School Board of Directors and is a founding board member of the See Forever Board. He also assists the organization with capacity-building efforts. Forman is a professor at the Georgetown University Law Center. In 2001, he served as a fellow at the New America Foundation, where he wrote about issues including juvenile justice and public education. A 1992 graduate of Yale Law School, Forman practiced for over five years as a staff attorney at the Public Defender Service, where he represented both juveniles and adults, and trained and supervised other lawyers. Prior to that, Forman served as a law clerk to Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.
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Dr. Anne Kendall	Anne Kendall spent seven years as a high school history teacher before she returned to school to get a Ph.D. in School Psychology. She currently is a member of a group practice in psychology and education that concentrates on assessment and counseling of children and adolescents. Kendall works with individuals ages 5 to 66 and is also a consultant to various schools in the area. She was a member of the board at The Field School for eight years.
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Peggy Long	Peggy Long is the mother of a current student at the Maya Angelou Public Charter School – Evans Campus. She has been an employee of the Government for the past 21 years. In addition, she has served as a mentor for teenagers at Clean and Pure Kids Mentoring Organization and as an Executive Board Member for AFSCME Local 1033.
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Dr. Lucretia Murphy	Lucretia Murphy is a senior program manager for Jobs for the Future (JFF). As part of JFF’s From Margins to Mainstream team, Murphy’s work addresses the need for structural systemic change to increase postsecondary access and success for low-income youth. For JFF’s work in the Boston High School Renewal – Small Schools Initiative, she focuses on two areas: the redesign of high school systems to improve educational opportunities for Boston youth, including dropouts and near dropouts; and building partnerships between Boston’s public schools and higher education institutions in order to increase postsecondary degree attainment or skilled level credentialing. Murphy's work beyond Boston focuses on the educational needs of disconnected youth. Her dissertation, “The Evidence of Things Not Seen: The Biography of the College Choice Process for Inner-City Young Women from Metropolis,” examines the college-going process of youth who have been poorly served by public high schools. Murphy holds a Ph.D. in higher education policy from the University of Michigan, where she conducted research on affirmative action policies, minority student persistent and the role of higher education in advancing the public good. At Michigan she also served as a research associate for the Kellogg Forum for Higher Education and the Public Good.
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Dr. Edith S. Tatel	Edith Tatel is an education consultant whose practice focuses on new teachers in struggling schools. She formerly served as director of professional development of Teach For America; the assistant professor and director of teacher education at American University School of Education, where she also taught writing in the Department of Literature; and a middle and high school English teacher. Tatel earned a BA and teaching certificate from the University of Michigan, an MA in English from Northwestern University, and a Ph.D. in Education Policy, Planning, and Administration from the University of Maryland-College Park. She serves on the Advisory Board of Teach For America-DC, as a reviewer for the District of Columbia Public Charter School Board, as chair of the School Performance Committee of MAPCS and as a teaching mentor for the Center for Artistry in Teaching.