Meet the Academic Leadership Team
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Managing Director of Academics & Compliance:
Brenna Horan
Brenna Horan has a Master's in Education from UCLA's Principal Leadership Institute and a Master's of Arts in Urban Education: Policy and Administration from Loyola Marymount University. She holds a clear administrative credential for school leadership, and two clear teaching credentials. During her career in education, she was a middle and high school teacher, an elementary resource specialist teacher, coordinator, assistant principal, and principal before transitioning to the instructional team at Extera. She first started teaching in Los Angeles in 2010 as a Teach For America teacher, and has taught students K-12th grade. Her educational philosophy is grounded in equity, culturally sustaining pedagogy and social justice. She is trilingual (Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese) and understands the importance of celebrating home language as the mother of a bilingual first grader.
Academic Programming Coordinator
Janet Orozco Brown
EPS Instructional Coach
Dr. Asmaa Mohamed
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EPS2 Instructional Coach
Jess Rivas (Jacobs)