Tamara Griffin-Major

Tamara Griffin-Major is an experienced educator, leader, strategist, and community-relations expert with a proven track-record of setting and achieving systems’ goals, working with community organizations and agencies to formulate mutually beneficial partnerships, and developing relationships among groups that formulate a powerful collective/collaborative. Tamara is single-minded in her efforts or focus to benefit the children of the City of New Orleans while having the uncanny ability to foresee and understand how seemingly extraneous factions interconnect. Her vision and passion has led her from the classroom, where she taught Mathematics, to the central office where she currently serves as the Chief Operating Officer for the Algiers Charter School Association.

Tamara Griffin-Major earned a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics Education from Southern University of New Orleans, a Master of Arts in Educational Administration from Xavier University of New Orleans and is currently working on her Doctor of Education in Executive Leadership at the University of Holy Cross.