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Somali White
Senior Consultant and Manager, Professional Learning and Coaching Services
Somali White is the manager for professional learning and coaching services and a senior consultant with Public Impact®. She leads a team of consultants to provide professional learning experiences for Opportunity Culture® educators, as well as school and district leaders; additionally, she assists districts and schools in implementing Opportunity Culture® models, which extend the reach of excellent teachers and their teams. Before joining the team, White served in the Multi-Classroom Leader® role in schools that were a part of Charlotte-Mecklenburg School’s Project L.I.F.T., an innovation zone created to improve student performance and close the achievement gap in several of Charlotte’s lowest-performing schools. During her six years in that role, she led teams of teachers and students to high growth in mathematics. She also served on Project L.I.F.T.’s first design team in 2012, designing Opportunity Culture® implementation plans. White holds an M.S. in urban and multicultural education from the College of Mount Saint Vincent and a B.S. in childhood education from St. John’s University.