School Leadership

_{Mr. Sanjay Mitchell is coming to Cesar Chavez PCS with over two decades in higher and secondary education. Most recently, he served as Director of Upper School, College & Alumni programs, where he ensured that 100% of seniors were accepted into college and more than 60% persisted and graduated within five years. Sanjay’s work has paved the way for students to enroll in and graduate from the Top 20 higher education institutions, including Stanford University, Yale University, University of Chicago, Pepperdine University, Cornell University, Georgetown University, Johns Hopkins University, Dartmouth College, UCLA, Emory University, Northwestern University, Carnegie Mellon University, and Rice. Sanjay serves on the National Association for College Admissions Counseling (NACAC) board and the DEI advisory board for The College of the Holy Cross. He previously served on the boards of Colleges That Change Lives (CTCL), the college advisory boards for George Washington University, Muhlenberg College, and the community advisory board for The Common App. Mr. Mitchell also served as Assistant Director of Undergraduate Admissions at the State University of New York at Albany (SUNY). Mr. Mitchell earned both his Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees from the State University of New York at Albany and a Graduate Certificate in Nonprofit Management Executive from Georgetown University. He resides in Washington, D.C., where he is a proud resident of Ward 7.}

_{Ashley High grew up in Flint, Michigan and attended high school in Marcellus, New York. After graduating from Alma College in 2005 with a degree in Foreign Service, she joined the New York City Teach For America Corps and taught 6-8 grade ESL in the Bronx from 2005 - 2008. She transitioned out of the classroom and began working at Democracy Prep Charter School as a Special Projects Coordinator, finding operations to be a natural fit for her love of serving students and teachers, creating and improving systems, and discovering efficiencies to maximize resources. Over the next ten years she worked in other charter networks in NYC including Ascend Learning, Uncommon Schools and KIPP:NYC. She spent four years as the Director of Operations at Leadership Prep Bed Stuy Middle Academy with Uncommon Schools where she helped grow the school from 110 scholars to more than 300 over four years and oversaw a 600k physical space plan that helped establish dedicated multi-purpose spaces for MA use, enabling scheduling flexibility within the co-located school building. In 2018, Ashley moved to the D.C. area to be closer to close friends who live in the greater DMV.  She began "Highly Organized," a home organizing business before joining the team at Congress Heights Public Charter School in January 2019 as the Director of Finance and Human Resources.  She joined the Chavez team in July 2019 as the Chief Operations Officer.  Ashley is cat mom to two wonderful cats, Mr. Darcy and Mr. Bingley, loves to travel, complete puzzles, read, and spend time with friends.}