A small independent K-6 school in Atlanta
Meet the Board
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Allegra Lawrence-Hardy
Governance Chair
Partner
Lawrence & Bundy LLC
Atlanta, Georgia
Allegra Lawrence-Hardy is co-founder of Lawrence & Bundy, the largest, nationally recognized Black owned litigation law firm on the East Coast. She also serves as Lead Litigation Counsel and Senior Advisor to Fair Fight Action, an organization that tirelessly advocates against voter suppression. Allegra served as campaign chair for Stacey Abrams’ 2018 and 2022 gubernatorial races.
Allegra is deeply committed to community involvement and board leadership. She has served in leadership roles for many of Atlanta’s long-established organizations, including the Children’s Museum of Atlanta, Zoo Atlanta, the Alliance Theatre, Girl Scouts of Greater Atlanta, the Fernbank Museum, as well as educational institutions, including the Atlanta Girls’ School, St. Anne’s Day School, the Paideia School, Emory University, and her alma mater, Spelman College. Allegra currently serves on the Executive Committee of the Independent School Chairpersons Association and was a commissioner on the American Bar Association’s Committee on the Lawyers’ Role in Assuring Every Child’s Right to a High-Quality Education.
Allegra is a recipient of many legal distinctions, including top 100 Georgia Super Lawyers, Top 50 Female Georgia Super Lawyers, Chambers USA, Benchmark Litigation Stars, and Best Lawyers in America. She is also a Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America and was recently featured on the cover of 2023 Georgia Super Lawyers as one of Georgia’s perennial Super Lawyers.
Diana Suber
Senior Legal Counsel
Employment Law Solution
Atlanta, Georgia
Ms. Suber is a Senior Counsel at the Employment Law Solution. She has over twenty years of legal experience in both the private and public sectors. Immediately prior to working for the ELS, she served as an Assistant Regional Counsel for the Social Security Administration, defending disability claims filed in federal court. Earlier in her career, Ms. Suber worked as an employment defense attorney at two large law firms—Jones Day and McGuireWoods— practicing all aspects of employment law defense, including litigating matters arising under federal and state anti-discrimination laws, conducting fact investigations, troubleshooting, and counseling clients conducting business in a wide range of industries. She also served for over a decade as an appellate staff attorney for the Honorable Justice Robert Benham of the Supreme Court of Georgia where she honed her expertise in high-level legal research, analysis, and opinion writing. Ms. Suber uses her wealth of knowledge and career experience to obtain satisfactory results for ELS clients.
Ms. Suber received her law degree from Harvard Law School and her bachelor’s degree from Emory University.
Tisha Jones
Senior Advisor of Content
Math Learning Center
Atlanta, GA
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Tisha Jones has been an educator for 15 years in both public and private sectors. She is currently developing math curriculum for under represented communities. Throughout her time in education, she has taught in grades from K-7. She has a special affinity for mathematics and delivered a TEDx talk titled Insπre: Rethinking the Purpose of Math Education. She has also had the pleasure of serving as a math specialist in her last two schools.
She earned her B.S. in Elementary Education from Florida A&M University, her M.S. in Educational Psychology from GA State University, and is currently working on her Ph.D. in Elementary Education, where she has focused on mathematics and equity in education, from GSU. She deeply believes that all children should be receiving an anti-racist education.
Kyla Byas- Smith
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Kyla is an experienced Principal with a Master of Arts in Teaching (M.A.T.) focused in Early Childhood Education and Teaching from Georgia State University. She has demonstrated evidence of garnering high outputs for both staff and student outcomes as well as strong education professional skills within project management, curriculum development & design, professional learning development & delivery, leadership coaching, and staff management.
In addition to her educational experience she also holds expertise within the fields of International Relations, Policy Analysis, Education Policy, Diplomacy, and Data due to her Undergraduate Degree in International Studies from Spelman College.
Principal
KIPP Charter School
Atlanta, GA
Joe Ambler
Executive Director
East Lake YMCA
Atlanta, GA
Joe Ambler Executive Director of the YMCA in East Lake. Ambler has been part of the Atlanta YMCA Association since 2005, beginning his YMCA career at the Carl E. Sanders Buckhead Family YMCA. During his time at the Buckhead Family YMCA, he served as a Tennis Professional, Director of Tennis, Senior Program Director and Associate Executive. Most recently Joe has provided leadership as the Branch Executive at the JM Tull - Gwinnett Family YMCA.
Joe has a wealth of experience in program and membership growth, fund development, operations, and partnerships. Prior to working for the YMCA, Joe served the communities of East Lake, Kirkwood and Oakhurst through the Department of Juvenile Justice, supporting the neighborhoods and serving youth and families. Joe's family has also been deep-rooted in the service area of the East Lake YMCA for the last 16 years and he is already strongly connected to the East Lake community.
Tamara Chambers
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Tamika Chambers is a VP at NWEA and has over 10 years of diverse experience in K-12 educational settings. She has spent time as a classroom teacher, principal, district administrator, assessment director and professional development director.
She is continuing her career supporting K-12 education through her work with a nonprofit organization, focusing on assessments and instructional resources in schools. In her past and present roles she has been successful at developing strategic school-wide plans related to school improvement, assessment transformation, expansion of curriculum and turnaround school efforts.
Currently, she presents at multiple national and regional conferences sharing information on the effects of assessments on K-12 education, various professional development topics and supporting executive leadership. Tamika is most excited about coming back to consult in Illinois, because she attended Graduate School at Governor’s State University, and wanted to focus on building better educational leadership opportunities in Illinois.
Vice President
NWEA
Atlanta, GA