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  • Our Schools
    • Freire High School
    • Freire Middle School
    • Freire Wilmington
    • TECH Freire
    • Coronavirus Information
  • Our Approach
    • Commitment to Peace
    • Preparing Every Student for College
    • Centering Student Voice
    • Connecting Our Classrooms to the World
    • Our Impact
  • About Us
    • Anti-Racist Action
    • Our Story
    • Our Leadership
    • Network Office
    • Financial Documents
    • Student Voice
    • Press Room
    • Contact Us
  • Careers
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    • Why Freire?
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Leigh Botwinik

Managing Director

leigh@freireschools.org
B.A. University of Michigan
M.P.A. University of Pennsylvania
M.S.Ed. University of Pennsylvania

As Freire Schools’ Managing Director, Leigh works to ensure coordination among Freire Schools’ teams in order to provide high quality service to our schools and to advance the network’s mission. She is also a champion of using data to improve performance and has shepherded in a new era of data-driven decision-making at Freire Schools. Leigh first developed a passion for education as a first and second grade teacher in Washington, DC as a Teach for America corps member. She is an experienced leader in the educational non-profit sector, including work in higher education with the Fels Institute of Government at the University of Pennsylvania. Outside of Freire Schools, Leigh is the co-President of the board of the Friends of Chester Arthur, a volunteer-led nonprofit organization that supports a neighborhood public school in Southwest Center City Philadelphia. Leigh is a recent alum of Leadership Philadelphia.

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