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Quameice Harris has provided support to top-level executives in Washington, D.C. for over 15 years. Currently, she is the Special Assistant to the Director of the D.C. Department of Human Services. In this role, she helps ensure that the agency continues to support low-income families and individuals in the city.

Previously, Quameice worked at the D.C. Executive Office of the Mayor, where she was responsible for managing day-to-day communications and tasks for the Mayor's Chief of Staff. Quameice also holds expertise in the education field, having worked at the D.C. Office for the State Superintendent of Education Division of Early Childhood Education.

Quameice is an active member in the Capital City community. She has served as the co-Vice President for the Parent School Association (PSA) since 2017.  She also volunteers outside of Capital City, serving as a mentor in the Family-to-Family Mentoring Program through the Perry Foundation.

Quameice currently lives in Washington, D.C. and is a proud Capital City parent of two Lower School students and a High School student.

Anne Herr is responsible for the DC Charter School Alliance's services to public charter schools, including performance management support and the start-up and expansion programs in her role of Director of Policy and Programs. Herr co-founded the Capital City Public Charter School in 2000 and served as its Executive Director from 2004-2009, providing leadership during its expansion from a successful PreK-8th grade school to incorporate a high school. Before getting involved with education and charter schools, she worked for the U.S. Department of State as an intelligence analyst, covering arms control and Russian foreign policy.

Herr is a graduate of Princeton University and the University of Maryland’s School of Public Affairs. Anne's three children attended Capital City.

Miz Kusairi brings more than 15 years of international cross-sector management experience across the philanthropic, nonprofit, and financial services sectors. Currently working out of Candid’s president’s office as Vice President for Planning, Miz’s role is to coordinate the workstream groups’ initiatives to integrate Foundation Center and GuideStar into a single organization and serve as board secretary. She is also lead for the workstream group on change management and culture. Miz previously led GuideStar's finance, strategic planning, special projects, and monitoring and evaluation systems. Before joining GuideStar, she served as vice president of operations, strategy, and talent at Global Citizen Year, a fast-growing and acclaimed internationally focused nonprofit social enterprise in youth leadership development. Miz also managed nearly $1 billion in investments and served in the chairman's office focusing on philanthropic initiatives at Usaha Tegas, a $10 billion business conglomerate in Malaysia. Earlier in her career, Miz spent time at the Fannie Mae Foundation, Citigroup, and the social investing firm Acumen.

She holds an M.B.A. from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business and a B.S. in Commerce from the University of Virginia's McIntire School of Commerce. Miz is the proud daughter of two life-long educators and is also a DC resident.

Xiomara Santos is a member of Capital City's first high school graduating class and is the first alum to join the Board of Trustees. She is currently the Director of Government Relations at the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities.

Previously, Xiomara was the State Campaigns Specialist at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and worked at a public affairs consulting firm where she handled advocacy projects and campaigns. She also worked at the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), one of the nation's oldest and largest Latino Civil Rights organization. While at LULAC, she organized bilingual panels and workshops on fundamental policy changes impacting Latinos. Xiomara also coordinated advocacy events that allowed LULAC members to address relevant issues first-hand with members of Congress and policymakers.

In her free time, Xiomara loves to bake and volunteers with the Future Coalition to provide pro-bono campaign services to youth activists and youth-led organizations. 

Dr. Nitika Tolani is a Senior Education Advisor for USAID/Asia Bureau. She has a 15-year track record of achievements in strategic planning, innovative program design, management, research, and monitoring and evaluation across early and basic education sectors. She has provided technical assistance in over 30 countries in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, the Pacific, and Europe.

Previously, Dr. Tolani led real time action reviews of education programs in Jordan (of Save the Children’s response to the Syrian crisis), and developed innovative strategies and systems to measure children’s access to/experience with education systems and education quality in Libya, Yemen and Iraq. She has proven leadership in capacity building activities with donor agencies, Ministries of Education, field-based NGOs, and civil society organizations through a diverse array of funders (USAID, UNICEF, NORAD, EU/ECHO, DFID, and multiple foundations). Dr. Tolani also led a consultative global process to develop an innovative, field driven methodology for assessing quality in Save the Children’s global education portfolio, called the Quality Learning Environment framework. It has now been rolled out to over 40 country programs in both humanitarian and development settings, and has been integrated into national education quality systems by several Ministries of Education.

She received her PhD in Developmental Psychology and MA in Applied Psychology from Teachers College, Columbia University, and earned a B.A. in Psychology and English from Santa Clara University.