Joan Sullivan

Founder, Bronx Academy of Letters

Joan Sullivan founded the Bronx Academy of Letters - a public, not charter, school - in the poorest congressional district in America. A few years later it was ranked as one of the top high schools in New York City. Joan tells her story and invites two alumni on-stage as well.

A few months after Gel 2009, Joan was appointed Deputy Mayor of Education in Los Angeles (source).

See also:

• Bronx Academy of Letters

• Followup interview with Joan Sullivan, shortly after Gel 2009, asking the question, "How did you do it?"

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