Alicia Maria Garcia De La Rosa is the Senior Director of Connecticut and Rhode Island Recruitment for Achievement First, a charter management organization that runs 25 public, high-performing, college preparatory academies in Brooklyn and Connecticut. She leads a team that recruits and selects teachers and school leaders for the Network’s11 Connecticut and Rhode Island based schools. Before joining the recruitment team, she was a teacher, grade level chair and coach for Achievement First. Prior to joining Achievement First, she was a 2002 New York City Teaching Fellow. She remained at her placement school in the Bronx as an elementary classroom teacher for four years. Her classroom h...