Our educational workforce is dominated by women. Roughly about 76% of teachers, 52% of principals and 78% of administrative staff are women, however, when you look at the executive office of school boards across the nation these positions are held primarily by men.

Women often times make it to a seat at the county or state school board but their voices are usually challenged or ignored. Listen as we speak with, Charisse Davis, Cobb County Board of Education Post 6, about diversity, equity, and inclusion within Cobb County School District (CCSD).

While she is not the first woman of color to serve on Cobb’s school board after 30 years Mrs. Davis believes she is still fighting the same up hill battles to be included and heard as Peggy Lawson Atkins. Mrs. Atkins was the first minority and disabled person elected to the Cobb County School Board Post 5 in 1992. She paved the way and is a change maker in her own right.

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