Samantha Hoare

Executive Director of Teach For America Miami
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The Leader

Sam is a Miami native and proud graduate of North Miami Senior High School. After earning her degree from Duke University, Sam joined the Mississippi Delta corps as a high school Spanish teacher in Leland, Mississippi. She earned her master’s degree from the University of the West Indies before moving to Belize, where she is also a citizen. In Belize, Sam taught and led a developmental English program at a community college for two years before returning to the Mississippi Delta to join the Teach For America staff in 2009. While there, Sam supported and developed a corps that grew from 150 to 500 in just two years. Sam then jumped at the opportunity to return to her Miami roots when she accepted a role on the leadership team as senior managing director of teacher leadership development with TFA Miami-Dade. Sam has led efforts to collaborate with families, community organizations, district and school leaders, and other critical supporters of the work to end inequity in education.

Recent Wins

Appointed to the Florida Commission on Human Relations
Selected to the Miami Fellows leadership program

The Bold Idea

A diverse network of leaders who confront educational inequity through teaching and work with unwavering commitment from every sector of society to realize the day when every child has an equal opportunity to learn, grow, influence, and lead.

The organization

Teach For America recruits outstanding and diverse leaders to become TFA “corps members.” Corps members commit to teaching for two years in a low-income community, where they're employed by local schools and confront both the challenges and joys of expanding opportunities for kids. TFA Miami-Dade works in partnership with Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS) to expand educational opportunity for all children. They find, develop, and support a diverse corps of outstanding leaders who make the commitment to teach in the highest-need schools. Informed and inspired, many alumni continue to teach, and others lead in different sectors in order to make a lifelong commitment to educational equity.