Director of the Office Equity and Inclusion and Interim Director of Recruitment and Professional Learning
The Berkeley Carroll School
Brooklyn, New York
Brandie Melendez is a nationally recognized equity practitioner exploring the intersections of identity, systems, and creating more equitable and inclusive learning and working environments. She has led workshops, training, and has been a featured speaker. As an educator and HR professional she explores equity paradigms through multiple lenses to create understanding, build skills, and elevate the complexities of the human experience of changing systems to be more inclusive.
She currently serves as the Director of Equity and Inclusion at The Berkeley Carroll School in Brooklyn, NY. Her work builds and sustains efforts to strive toward living their mission of the school to prepare students for “…a life of critical, ethical, and global thinking”. She has led anti-racist and anti-bias curriculum development, hiring and retention efforts, adult and student programming, policy creation, board engagement as well as teaching equity and justice centered courses.
Brandie has been a member of the New York State Association of Independent Schools (NYSAIS) Diversity Committee for the last five years and is in her second year as Co-Chair of the committee. Brandie is an Oliver Scholar Alumna, a graduate of the Horace Mann School and holds a B.A in Psychology from Brown University and an M.S.Ed in School Leadership from The University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education.
Brandie brings the multiple perspectives and experiences she has as a student, a mother of two, a teacher, as an equity practitioner, and strategic HR partner to all facets of her work.
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Tuesday, February 22, 2022
10:15 AM – 11:35 AM CT