Guest, Miranda Beard

Miranda is the former president of the National Schools Boards Association (NSBA) based in the Washington, DC area. In her role as president and NSBA director, she traveled the U.S. as a leading voice and advocate for equity and excellence in education for more than 50 million children in our nation’s schools. She represented 90 thousand school board members on a national education tour to Central and Western Europe. Miranda is the past president of the Laurel School District Board of Trustees and past president of the Mississippi School Boards Association. She has more than 20 years of leadership experience on the local, state and national levels.

Miranda is a graduate of the University of Mississippi at Oxford, Mississippi with a degree in broadcast journalism with an emphasis in public relations. She worked in various roles as a newscaster, producer, and assistant news content director at a Hattiesburg, Mississippi television station. Former Governor Kirk Fordice appointed Miranda as a commissioner to the Mississippi Employment Security Commission, a position she held for eight years. She is a former member of the Board of Directors for the Greater Mississippi Girl Scouts and past president of the Mississippi Associated Press Broadcasters Association.