Marishka Winters

Marishka grew up in East Los Angeles and Whittier, CA. As a first-generation college student, she has dedicated her career to working with communities and schools historically marginalized at a national level.

She began her teaching career in LAUSD schools in South LA neighborhoods and served in public schools for nine years.

She then served as the Director of Teacher Development at the Partnership for Los Angeles Schools supporting seventeen urban public schools to drive teacher effectiveness and to develop teacher leaders. She continued to focus on these areas while at TNTP as a project director.

At New Teacher Center, she served as a founding leader of a national school leadership program as a senior director and led the program strategy for the federally awarded Education Innovation and Research grant.

Marishka attended Scripps College (undergrad), Harvard Graduate (Education Policy and Management), UCLA Graduate (school leadership).