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Ariela Rozman, Chief Executive Officer, The New Teacher Project

Ariela Rozman is the Chief Executive Officer of The New Teacher Project (TNTP), a national nonprofit organization dedicated to closing the achievement gap by ensuring that poor and minority students get excellent teachers. Founded by teachers in 1997, TNTP helps school districts and states diagnose their most critical teacher quality challenges, develop scalable solutions, and realign their policies and systems to the goal of a great teacher in every classroom.

Rozman oversees TNTP's work of training teachers, staffing schools, and conducting policy studies in more than 25 cities. TNTP is especially well known for its highly selective Teaching Fellows programs, which recruit and train thousands of accomplished career changers and recent graduates to become teachers for high-poverty schools every year. Since its inception, TNTP has hired or trained approximately 33,000 teachers, benefiting an estimated 4.8 million students nationwide. It has also published a series of seminal studies on the policies and practices that affect the nation's teacher workforce, most recently including "The Widget Effect: Our National Failure to Acknowledge and Act on Differences in Teacher Effectiveness" (www.widgeteffect.org).

Prior to becoming CEO in 2007, Rozman served for four years as Vice President of Teaching Fellows Programs, growing TNTP's largest business line to a staff of more than 60 individuals and overseeing the launch of 12 new programs in cities such as Chicago, New Orleans, and Oakland. Rozman began her tenure with The New Teacher Project in 2001 as Vice President of Marketing.

Before joining The New Teacher Project, Rozman led the Online Marketing group for PlanetRx.com. Previously, she worked at Muresco, a retail and manufacturing conglomerate in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and at Bain & Co., a leading strategy consulting firm, working with Fortune 500 companies to improve their growth strategies and revenue opportunities. She holds a BA in Political and Social Thought from the University of Virginia.