Kara Bobroff (Navajo/Lakota), is a life long educator and leader with more than twenty years of experience serving her community as a teacher and school leader and innovator. She is the founding principal of the Native American Community Academy (NACA), an award-winning public charter school dedicated to Native American student success in Albuquerque, NM. Under her leadership, NACA has been recognized as a model for effective Indigenous education by the New Mexico Indian Education Sub-Committee; the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP) as a Breakthrough School; and Teach for America as a “School to Learn From." Kara is currently the Executive Director of One Generation and founded the NACA-Inspired Schools Network (NISN), the first school network that began in 2014 in the nation that is focused on improving Native American education through a community-led engagement and transformation process. Kara served as Deputy Sectretary of Identity, Equity and Transformation at the NMPED. Kara was appointed in 2015 to the President Obama’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. She is also a 2005 Echoing Green Fellow, 2019 Broad Fellow and Ashoka Fellow. Kara serves as the Chair of the National Fund for Excellence in American Indian Education, board member of TNTP, NM Appleseed, Food Corps and an active Emerita board memeber of the NACA Inspried Schools Network.