Archana Patel
Vice President, Jeremiah Program
Archana Patel is a seasoned coach, educator and leader. As the Vice President of Parent Programming for Jeremiah Program, she leads content, strategy and impact for a growing national program that partners across nine cities and over 1000 single mothers and their children to disrupt generational poverty through education, economic mobility, policy transformation and power-building. She is also an executive coach who works with senior executives as they align their values and visions to their leadership.
Archana started her career in New York City as K-12 educator and leader. After earning her Master’s in Education from Fordham University, she went on to co-found Teach for India, the first of the Teach for All portfolio organizations. She played key leadership roles within the KIPP schools in both Newark and Los Angeles, leading turnaround and talent strategy at the school and system level. Archana spent nearly seven years at The Broad Center designing programs, coaching leaders and setting strategy for alumni and executive level leaders of the nation’s largest school systems. Her work focused on equity leadership, senior team effectiveness and leader sustainability. Most recently, she served as the Senior Director of the Broad Academy program, supporting over 50 CEOs and cabinet members while guiding a merger with to the Yale School of Management. She holds Masters degrees in Public Policy from University of Southern California and Education from Fordham University and Bachelor’s degrees in English and Philosophy from Boston College.
She is a mom of two, serves on the boards of Great Public Schools Now and Citizens of the World Charter Los Angeles and volunteers as a Crisis Text counselor and adult literacy tutor.