Steven Farr

Steven Farr is the vice president for knowledge development and public engagement for Teach For America. In this role, he leads the organization's efforts to discern what distinguishes teachers who achieve dramatic academic growth with their students in low-income communities and to use those findings to improve teacher selection, training, and support. Teach For America is the national corps of outstanding recent college graduates of all academic majors who commit two years to teach in underserved urban and rural public schools. The organization’s mission is to build the movement to eliminate educational inequity by enlisting our nation's most promising future leaders in the effort. As a Teach For America corps member in 1993, Steven Farr taught high school English and English as a Second Language for two years in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. He then attended the Yale Law School where he focused his studies on education equity litigation (especially in Texas) and co-authored "The Edgewood Drama: An Epic Quest for Education Equity" in the Yale Law and Policy Review. After serving as a law clerk for the Honorable William Wayne Justice in Texas, Steven taught civil rights and disabilities law at the Georgetown University Law Center’s Institute for Public Representation. In 2001, Steven returned to Teach For America as vice president for training & support and has since held various roles related to the organization's program design and knowledge development.