Sahba Rohani serves as the executive director of Roots ConnectED, an initiative she helped found and launch in 2017, born out of over a decade of experience and learning from Community Roots Charter School, a pioneer in the diverse by design movement, located in Brooklyn, NY. She was the director of community development at Community Roots for nine years, where she began as a founding teacher in 2006. Since 2016, she has been working to support schools across the country in practices of anti-bias and inclusive education through presentations at conferences, leading multi-day training for school leaders and educators, and coaching schools and organizations directly in institutional shifts toward equity. Sahba holds an MA in international education: family and community development from Teachers College, Columbia University.
