I am an award-winning educator, school designer, researcher, and former school principal uncovering and sharing the mechanisms that promote both individual and collective resilience for K-12 leaders. My work as both a school design partner and doctoral student at Columbia’s Teachers College sits at the intersection of theory and practice: I study and implement the systems that foster principal success and wellness post-COVID. I am also deeply interested in redefining my own understanding of impact within the classroom, school, and system-levels. This has been highlighted by my receiving of the Teachers College, Columbia University Student Impact Honor in 2023. Informed by my own experiences as a pandemic-era principal, and now as a School Design Partner at Transcend, I advise school, district, and state education leaders on strategic ways to reimagine the schooling ecosystem to ensure campus-based talent not only sustain but thrive. I am also a co-designer of Transcend’s 2023 Inaugural Innovation Summit, convening funders, educators, school, system, and nonprofit leaders to build the conditions to innovate current education models. Before pivoting to education leadership, I was an award-winning teacher in Duval County Public Schools. In the 2015-2016 school year, I lead students to the highest math scores in North Florida and 100% proficiency on the Math Florida Standards Assessments. I currently live in Detroit and am a National Fellowship of Black and Latino Male Educators fellow, a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. and an alumnus of both Teach For America and Leadership for Educational Equity (LEE).