Brittany Wagner-Friel

Brittany Wagner-Friel, Elementary School Principal at E.L. Haynes Public Charter School, began her career in education working with children with physical disabilities throughout high school and college, before moving abroad to teach English as a second language in Mexico. She joined E.L. Haynes in February 2007 as a teaching fellow before becoming an elementary school special education teacher. Wagner-Friel was promoted to Assistant Principal in 2012 while a member of New Leaders and became Principal in 2014. She graduated from The University of Vermont with a Bachelor’s degree in political science and earned her Master’s degree from The Catholic University of America in special education. She was a 2015 Fellow with the Relay Graduate School of Education’s National Principal’s Academy and a member of the inaugural cross-sector Executive Masters in Leadership cohort through Georgetown University.