Amy Rome

“I have dedicated to impacting the learning opportunity gaps for students that perpetuate race outcome gaps. These gaps are what motivated me to enter the field of education as a teacher, school and system leader in Chicago Public Schools, and also what inspired me to stay for the past 25 years. There is much work to be done. As an outsider to the community in which I learned and served for nearly 20 years, and a member of white, dominant culture, I am on a learning journey to become an ally in the fight to dismantle systemic racism.”

Amy Rome is a board member on the Chicago Board of Education.