Tricia DeGraff | Executive Director

Tricia received her doctorate from University of Missouri-Kansas City. Tricia has more than 20 years of experience in urban schools as a classroom teacher, teacher educator, and school leader. As a teacher educator, Tricia taught a practice-based integrated literacy, social studies, and arts methods course. Through this work, Tricia partnered with school-based staff to design learning experiences for pre-service teachers that connect practice to theory. In her current role, Tricia is interested in determining how to best facilitate professional development for teachers that is meaningful, inquiry-based, authentic, and teacher-centered, leading to transformative learning for children and teachers. In her free time, Tricia enjoys spending time with her family, including her two growing children, and traveling.