Dr. Sana Shaikh is an expert in organizational change management, culturally responsive organizational practices, and diversity, equity, and inclusion programmatic initiatives. She has over 14 years of experience in operations, policy research, and project management.
A 2011 Teach for America corps member, Dr. Shaikh spent two years teaching 11th grade English in Baltimore City. She later joined Teach for America staff, working as Manager, Teacher Leadership Development, and coaching 30 K-12 leaders from throughout Denver. She has served in various capacities on the national operations and admissions teams. Her experience has ranged from policy to non-profit and has taken her from Denver, Colorado working with Senator Mike Johnston, to New Orleans, Louisiana for Americorps partnerships to Humjibre, Ghana to help steward positive social change.
She holds two Bachelors degrees from the University of California Berkeley in Political Science and Near Eastern Studies – Islamic Civilizations, two Masters degrees; one from Johns Hopkins in Urban Studies and one from Brandeis University in Social Policy and Management, and a Ph.D. in Social Policy and Management in Assets and Inequalities. She has completed her DEI certification from eCornell. Her mixed methods dissertation utilizes both qualitative and quantitative data to analyze the intersection of racial identity and relational coordination in cultivating culturally responsive classrooms.
Dr. Shaikh has had the privilege of presenting her research both domestically and globally, in Relational Coordination Roundtables that have taken from Portland, Oregon to Copenhagen, Denmark.
She has attained numerous fellowships throughout her career: she was a recipient of the Harvard Kennedy School Rappaport Fellowship, the Leadership for Educational Equity Fellowship, the InSPIRED Fellowship through the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, and more recently, serves as a 50Can National Voices Fellow. In all these spaces, she is committed to using data to create meaningful programmatic initiatives and quantifiable and equitable policy change.
In the past, Dr. Shaikh has been a thought partner and facilitator for Achievement First, Civitas, Mursion, and the Ghana Health Education Initiative, and The Collective, among others.
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