New Schools for Baton Rouge

Join us in welcoming Rachel Brown as our new Managing Director of School Leadership at New Schools for Baton Rouge!

Rachel brings extensive experience developing school and systems leaders to her role at NSBR. Her career spans classroom, school, district, state, and national contexts — giving her a rich perspective on what it takes to build the conditions for student success. Most recently, Rachel served as Senior Program Manager at Cambiar Education, where she coached school and system leaders across the country through the Catalyst Fellowship, leading a strategic process to help them design and implement solutions to their most complex organizational challenges.

Prior to Cambiar, Rachel built her career in and around Baton Rouge schools. She served as the founding Academic Collaborative Team Manager at Democracy Prep Baton Rouge, where she designed and led special education and response to intervention programming from the ground up — producing some of the highest student growth results in the state. She has also served as a School Support Specialist in Jefferson Parish, was the Assistant Administrator of Curriculum and Instruction and Special Programs at Crescent City Christian School, and served as the Project Director for the SPED Fellow Academy at the Louisiana Department of Education, where she launched and led a leadership development program for special education directors across the state.

Rachel came to Baton Rouge seventeen years ago because she was moved by the mission of serving students whose educational experiences mirrored her own. She has called South Louisiana home ever since — raising her family here and serving her community as a Court Appointed Special Advocate for children in foster care. She believes deeply that principal quality is one of the most direct levers to transform outcomes for Baton Rouge students, and is committed to building a leadership pipeline this city deserves.

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