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Dr. Cecilia Cunningham:
Cecilia Cunningham is the founder and Director of the Middle College National Consortium. She was principal of the original Middle College at LaGuardia Community College from 1981 until 2002. She was co-director of the first efforts funded by The Ford Foundation to replicate Middle College High School in the late 1980’s. With funding from many foundations the Consortium today has 35 member schools.
Middle College High School, under Dr. Cunningham’s leadership was the first public Early College High School to work with underserved students. It was funded by The Ford Foundation in 2001.
Dr. Cunningham is also a founder of the New York Performance Consortium, a network of New York State schools committed to using multiple measures for graduation for high school. In 1993 she started the Bank Street Principals Institute to prepare more woman and people of color to take leadership roles in schools in New York City.
Cecilia Cunningham holds a Doctorate in Educational Administration form Teachers College, Columbia University and a Bachelors of Science Degree in mathematics for St Peters College, Jersey City, NJ. She is the winner of the McGraw Hill Prize in Education in 2004 and the Reliance Award for Leadership in 1994.
Dr. Chanika Perry:
A former high school principal, Chanika currently serves as Director of Education Programs at Hands On Atlanta, an adjunct professor at Teachers College, Columbia University, and the board chair of the International Community School in Decatur, GA. Raised on a dirt road in rural Georgia, she now lives in Atlanta after calling New York City home for 11 years. She has been in the fields of youth development and education for over 20 years, with most of those years spent in New York City and Atlanta.
Chanika and Lance have been friends for over 20 years, worked together at Project Morry for over a decade, and continue to collaborate as co-founders of Conversation Forward.
Dr. Lance Ozier:
Lance has been on the faculty of The City University of New York since 2009, having also taught courses at Teachers College, Columbia University. Born and raised on a Georgia farm, he now lives in New York, and has taught and worked in Atlanta and NYC classrooms for over 20 years. Lance also spent 15 seasons in the Catskill Mountains at Morry’s Camp, and serves on the American Camp Association’s research advisory committee.
Susan Doyle:
Susan M. Doyle attended State University College at Buffalo earning a BS and MS in Special Education – Learning and Behavior Disorders as well as a Certificate of Advanced Studies in School Administration being certified as a School District Administrator (SDA) and School Administrator Supervisor. (SAS)
Her career began as a High School Special Education teacher in the Buffalo Public Schools for 11 years before moving into an administrator role as an Assistant Principal at a Comprehensive Inner City High School for 4 years. Ms. Doyle returned to her first school, Buffalo Traditional, an Inner City 5-12 Magnet School but in a new role as principal for the next 9 years.
In 2003 Ms. Doyle was asked to open a new school in Buffalo, Middle Early College HS and remained there for the past 17 years until her retirement in August , 2020. She is now mentoring new principal’s for the Buffalo Public Schools.
Ms. Doyle is a member of the Executive Board and Executive Team and Coach for the Middle College National Consortium. She is involved with the NYS Dual Enrollment initiative, served on the Smart Scholars Advisory Board for New York State and a variety of leadership committees for the Buffalo Public Schools.
Jennifer E. Kim:
Jennifer E. Kim is a Senior Research Associate at NCREST. She is currently leading several projects examining features and outcomes associated with schools and programs that offer college course-taking and readiness opportunities to high school students, both at the state and national levels. Ms. Kim’s research and policy interests include topics related to underserved student populations, college and career readiness, dual enrollment and middle/early college schools, school partnerships, and data use for continuous organizational improvement. Ms. Kim taught fifth grade for two years and her dissertation work, in the program of Sociology of Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, has focused on interorganizational relations between schools and external partners. She received her Bachelors in Sociology and Masters in Educational Policy, Planning, and Leadership, both from the College of William & Mary.
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