D.E.L.T.A. STEAM ACADEMY - Key Persons
Katrina holds a Master's Degree in Educational Leadership, a Bachelor's Degree in middle grades education, a Georgia Teaching Certificate and seventeen years of direct instructional experience with both students and adults. She has served as an Academic Coach and Gifted Specialist in both Cobb and Fulton Counties. She anchors her leadership in ensuring each child is pushed with rigorous, relevant lessons that go in-depth and stimulate intellectual curiosity.
Job Titles:
- CEO & Founding School Leader
- Principal / School Leader
Nikki is an Atlanta native and career changer from Engineering […] Read More
Nikki is an Atlanta native and career changer from Engineering to Education. Upon receiving her undergraduate degree from Vanderbilt University, she pursued her Master's Degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University of TN, Knoxville. Her thesis work there on creating an electrical device that would regenerate bone led her to become a Lead Research Specialist at Emory University. While at Emory, Nikki practiced biomedical engineering for five years conducting research on how electrical stimulation could allow persons who had experienced brain injuries to use their leg muscles again to walk. She answered her call to teach in 2006 via Teach For America and has since been on a path to eradicating educational inequities for children of color. Nikki taught in the counties we hope to serve at Westlake High School and Lindley Middle School. She has been a high school and middle school Principal in large urban districts in the country including Chicago and Memphis. Most recently, she served as a Leadership Coach to aspiring and new principals in the School District of Philadelphia, charter school executive leaders, and provided professional development around Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion throughout the state of Massachusetts.
Nikki Grey has worked in education for over 18 years. She started her journey in working in education as an AmeriCorps Team Leader with Hands on Atlanta in 2 middle schools in Atlanta Public Schools. She then taught elementary school in Atlanta Public Schools for nine years. Additionally, she has taught at as an adjunct elementary education college professor for Shorter University, a teacher for a group home for girl, and as a reading and math interventionist for Fulton County Schools. In 2014 Nikki was hired as the founding curriculum coordinator for KIPP WAYS Primary School in Atlanta. Currently she is the KIPP Metro Atlanta Schools Primary Schools Math Specialist and a Eureka Math Professional Development Fellow. Nikki holds a Bachelor's degree from the University of North Alabama and a Master's degree in Elementary Education from the University of Phoenix.