Jen Maestas,

Founder

Jen's been a teacher, instructional coach, and elementary school principal. She also hosts Miss Education, a podcast produced by Geekdom Media about the education landscape in San Antonio.  She is currently supporting school design for several proposed new schools.

Veronica Valdovinos,

Co-Founder

Veronica has been a first grade teacher, a fourth grade teacher, an instructional coach and is currently serving SA's largest urban school district as an administrative intern.  She's also pursuing her educational leadership graduate degree at Trinity University.

Jenny Rosas,

Co-Founder

Jenny taught kinder and sixth grade, served as an instructional specialist for both Gifted and Talent and Bilingual Education, and was a school leader at Mark Twain Dual Language Academy. She currently serves the educational non-profit, TNTP as a Director of Academics. 

Sukh Kaur
Board Member

Sukh is a TFA alum.  She taught middle school math in Houston and also served as Dean of Instruction and College Advisor.  She is the owner & CEO of EdReimagined and recently completed her doctoral program at Vanderbilt University. 

Jennifer Benavides
Board Member

Jennifer is an experienced principal leading the work at Fox Tech High School in SAISD.  She is skilled at building relationships and seeing the magic in everyone.  She's dedicated to building programs that strengthen the connection between educators and the community that we serve.

Delia Montelongo-McLerran
Board Member

Delia McLerran is the proud Head of Schools of the Young Women’s Leadership Academy (YWLA) Network.  Her passion for teaching began in New York City’s Bronx borough. She taught and served Corpus Christi as administrator for 19 years before moving to San Antonio in 2010.