Mya Baker

Mya Baker leads TNTP’s consulting work in Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Pittsburgh, South Dakota, and Wisconsin, with a focus on helping educators, schools, and school systems expand access to opportunity.

Previously, as a Partner, she supported a number of contracts across the nation to improve instructional outcomes for students. She led the academic diagnostic team in the launch of the equity-based evaluation of the findings of The Opportunity Myth. Before joining TNTP, Mya served as the senior director of curriculum and instruction at Uplift Education in Dallas-Fort Worth, a network that serves 15,000 scholars across 36 schools. In this role, Mya oversaw the K-12 Curriculum department and the network-wide English Second Language (ESL) program. She set the strategic vision for training and execution of Uplift’s instructional model which includes full implementation of the International Baccalaureate (IB) Programs (PYP, MYP, and DP). In addition, Mya served as a managing director in which she directly managed three elementary schools.