Janiel A. Brown

Janiel A. Brown | Founding Board Director

Janiel A. Brown | Founding Board Director

Janiel A. Brown is an educational leader and organizational strategist with extensive experience in school leadership, teacher development, community partnerships, and student support. She currently serves as a high school Assistant Principal, where her work focuses on instructional leadership, schoolwide systems, teacher coaching, strategic planning, and creating conditions in which both educators and students can thrive.

Her career spans classroom teaching, school administration, program leadership, and educator development. Through her work with Teach For America, she has led teacher coaching and community partnerships, supported beginning educators, collaborated with school and district leaders, and designed professional learning experiences. She is also a co-founder of Teach For Jamaica, where she has contributed to organizational strategy, teacher recruitment and selection, and leadership development.

Janiel began her career as a special education teacher and has remained deeply committed to expanding educational opportunity, developing educators, and strengthening systems that support student success. She holds a Master’s degree in Education from Johns Hopkins University and a Master’s degree in Secondary School Administration/Principalship from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

As a Founding Board Director of TAFT Foundation, Janiel brings a practitioner’s perspective on K–12 education, school leadership, teacher development, and student pathways. Her experience supports TAFT’s work to develop high-potential students as mentors and leaders while helping build pathways for the next generation of educators.