The Impact Educator initiative celebrates K–12 educators from around the world who are shaping tomorrow’s leaders.
The 2024 Morehead-Cain Impact Educators come from thirty-five states, the District of Columbia, and twelve countries.Morehead-Cain is pleased to announce the 2024 Impact Educators recognized by semifinalists for the Morehead-Cain Class of 2028. The 445 Impact Educators come from thirty-five states, the District of Columbia, and twelve countries. Twenty educators recognized this year were also recognized in 2023 as part of the inaugural cohort.
The Impact Educator initiative celebrates K–12 educators from around the world who are shaping tomorrow’s leaders. The honorees are recognized by outstanding high school seniors for shaping their students’ lives and leadership learning.
“We are proud to recognize 445 outstanding educators who ignite the spark of curiosity in our future leaders,” said Chris Bradford, president of Morehead-Cain. “Their dedication, passion, and impact shape hearts and minds and lay the foundation for a brighter tomorrow. We thank these teachers for being architects of hope.”
View the full list of the 2024 Impact Educators below.
2024 Impact Educators
The Impact Educators are listed below alphabetically by North Carolina, out-of-state (other U.S. states and the District of Columbia), and international.
North Carolina
Jordan Adair
Durham Academy
Thomas Andrejkovics
Currituck County High School
Gabriel Argao
Leesville Road High School
Hannah Ashley
West Stokes High School
Tamar Avineri
North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics-East Campus
Leah Barlow
North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics-East Campus
Melinda Barnhardt
Cedar Ridge High School
Leslie Belcher*
William Amos Hough High School
Kendall Bell
Cary Academy
Sarah Bell
Charles E. Jordan Senior High School
Jennifer Bennett
Jesse O. Sanderson High School
Sean Bennett
Mount Tabor High School
Mary Jordan
Benoit Providence Day School
Gina Billingsley
Highlands School
Drew Blazo
Terry Sanford Senior High School
Laura Bolling-Griffith (retired)
Shannon Boone
Dixon High School
Laura Bowen
Cape Fear Academy
Ken Boyer
Voyager Academy High School
Sarah Bradley
Greenfield School
Eric Broer
Leesville Road High School
Allison Bruner
Willow Spring High School
Seth Buddy
Carolina Day School
Deborah Butler
West Carteret High School
Jennifer Button
Pine Forest Senior High School
Kara Caccuitto*
Cary Academy
Lyn Cagle
The O’Neal School
Ian Cahall
South Mecklenburg High School
Christen Campbell
Chapel Hill Senior High School
Matthew Campolmi
Ardrey Kell High School
David Cantrell*
North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics-East Campus
Micheal Cargill
North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics-East Campus
Carrie Carman-Jewers*
Arendell Parrott Academy
Karen Carroll
Ravenscroft School
Emily Carson
Needham B. Broughton High School
Annie Castro
Providence Day School
Tim Chavel
Metrolina Regional Scholars Academy
Sharon Cherry
Washington County High School (formerly Plymouth High School)
April Cheuvront
Avery County High School
Carla Ciccarelli
William Amos Hough High School
John Clevenger
R. J. Reynolds Senior High School
Kathryn Cogdell
Lake Norman High School
Randy Combs
Watauga Innovation Academy
Meagan Coneybeer
NC Innovation
Keith Cooper
Chapel Hill Senior High School
Josh Cooper
Caldwell Early College High School
David Corsbie
Green Hope High School (former)
Lisa Covington
Enloe Magnet High School
Lew Davidson
Concord Academy
Michael Devine
Pinecrest High School
Erik Dillard
The STEM Early College at N.C. A&T
Russell Dorrell
Northern Guilford High School
Leslie Dott
Apex High School
Alex Drake
Research Triangle High School
Mark Eichinger-Wiese (retired)
William Edwards
Durham Academy
Zachary Erwin
A. L. Brown High School
Shawna Farbotnik
Pinecrest High School
Allison Faulkenberry
Pine Lake Preparatory
Kenny Felder*
Raleigh Charter High School
Layla Ferguson
East Rutherford High School
Heather Ferguson*
Gray Stone Day School
Stephen Ferguson
Cardinal Gibbons High School
Chrissie Ficken
Cary Christian High School
Victoria Fiore
Myers Park High School
Brian Foster
Triton
Gretchen Fredrick
Charlotte Latin School
Noel Freidline
Davidson Day School
Collyn Gaffney
North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics-West Campus
Todd Gealy
North Raleigh Christian Academy
Arthur Gilliam
Richmond Senior High School
Nathan Gilson
Carmel Christian School
Shannon Godfrey
Harnett Central High School
Alan Goldstein
Research Triangle High School
Terrell Gould
Havelock High School
Carole Griffin
J. F. Webb Senior High School
James Guy
Edgecombe Early College High School
Natasha Haas
Alexander Central High School
Stephen Hairgrove
Ardrey Kell High School
Jennifer Hall
John T. Hoggard High School
Paige Hamblin
University Christian High School
Caroline Hann
Jesse C. Carson High School
Shannon Hanson
Pisgah High School
Misty Harris
Ledford Senior High School
Linda Harvel
Pinecrest High School
Michael Henthorn
Oak Grove High School
Edward Highsmith
Cato Middle College High School
Jamie Hill
Chase High School
Paul Holloman
Rocky Mount Senior High School
Nathaniel Hoover
Seaforth High School
Jonathan Horner*
Trinity Academy of Raleigh
Rachel Hudson
D. H. Conley High School
Laura Huffman
Cannon School
Bryan Hunt
Trinity School of Durham and Chapel Hill
Margee Husemann
Carolina Day School
Creighton Irons ’05+
Woods Charter School
Shea James
Green Level High School
Brian Jameson Covenant
Day School
Rebecca Jernigan
South Central High School
Patrick Jessee*
Cary Senior High School
Morris Johnson*
The Early College at Guilford
Dusty Jozefiak
McDowell High School
Barbara Karnowski
John Paul II Catholic High School
Joi Keen
Buncombe County Schools
Heather Kennedy
North Lenoir High School
Shayne Klein
Raleigh Charter High School
Elizabeth Knight
Junius H. Rose High School
Robin Kolodziey
East Mecklenburg High School
Julie Lamb
Lumberton Senior High School
Jamie Lathan
North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics-East Campus
Michelle Le
Panther Creek High School
Bethany Lee
Myers Park High School
Kimberly Lloyd
Thomas Jefferson Classical Academy
Angela London*
Ralph L. Fike High School
Michelle Lovett
Southwest Guilford High School
Leslie Lucas
John T. Hoggard High School
Bruce Macartney
South Iredell High School
David Madorin
Central Cabarrus High School
Lauren Marquez
Saint Mary’s School
Christine Marshall
Providence Day School
Tiffany Mayo
West Carteret High School
Sara McAllister
Smithfield-Selma Senior High School
Paula McAven
Asheville High School
Todd McCabe
Jack Britt High School
Joshua McGehee
Walter Hines Page High School
Margaret Meyers
Hillside High School
Melissa Mitcheltree
Hickory High School
Micheal Mohney
Christ School
Egbebekak Monjimbo
Mallard Creek High School
Jamie Monk
Highland School of Technology
Sara Monson
The School of Inquiry and Life Sciences at Asheville
Sharon Moore
Clinton High School
Ormand Moore
North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics-East Campus
Samantha Moore
North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics-West Campus
Freddy Moore
Marvin Ridge High School
Aticila Mormando
Mills Park Middle School
Margaret Mulry
Grimsley High School
Thomas Naramore
Wallace-Rose Hill High School
Betsy Newmark
Raleigh Charter High School
Barbara Nichols*
Needham B. Broughton High School
David Noblitt (retired)
Laura Noel
Carrboro High School
Robert Palmer*
Jordan-Matthews High School
Brian Parker*
Orange High School
Tonya Parks
Mooresville Senior High School
Elizabeth Peeples
North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics-East Campus
Pearle Pratt
Montgomery County Early College
Randy Pressley*
Tuscola Senior High School
Melissa Pruett
Gaston Day School
Carolyn Prunier
East Lincoln High School
Janet Pysz (retired)
Doug Riggs
Jordan-Matthews High School
Laura Robinson
North Gaston High School
Charles Robinson
North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics-East Campus
Patricia Rodriquez
Croatan High School (former)
Mery Rojas
Woods Charter School
Matthew Salzman
Richlands High School
Ryan Seeger
The Epiphany School of Global Studies
Harold Shepard
Pisgah High School
Virginia Shreve
Hunt High School
Kim Silvers
Mountain Heritage High School
Kara Slawter
Yadkin Early College High School
Matthew Smith
Riverside High School
Nick Smith
Greensboro Day School
Michael Smith
Lake Lure Classical Academy
Justine Smith
Richlands High School
Tyler Smith
New Hanover High School
Thomas Soth
Chapel Hill Senior High School
William Sponholtz
Forsyth Country Day School
Janet Stallard
Hopewell High School
Heidi Steeves
Shelby High School
Adam Stephenson
Hunt High School
Isaac Stewart
North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics-West Campus
Jordan Stone*
Ardrey Kell High School
Lindsey Stone
Topsail High School
Dawn Strickland
Whiteville High School
Sherri Stubbs
Seaforth High School
Renny Taylor*
Nash Central High School
Phillip Teague
Lincolnton High School
Melissa Terry
Stanly STEM Early College
Laura Trojan
Charlotte Country Day School
Timmy Tucker
Rocky Mount Academy
Thomas Turner
Charles D. Owen High School
Sandy Tyndall*
Wake Early College of Health Sciences
Kaitlyn Velasco
R. J. Reynolds Senior High School
Bill Velto
Cary Academy
William Vincent
East Chapel Hill High School
Charlotte Waddell
Atkins Academic & Technology High School
Lauren Wagner
North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics-East Campus
Michael Walter
Junius H. Rose High School
Stephanie Watson
Avery County High School
Deborah West
Northeast Academy for Aerospace and Advanced Technologies (NEAAT)
Cheryl West
East Bladen High School
Kenneth Weston
D. H. Conley High School
Shelbi Wheeler
Louisburg High School
Wendy Wicker
Lexington Senior High School
Nichole Willis
Manteo High School
Jamie Wilson
Watauga High School
Kim Wimpey
Eno River Academy
Joanne Winters
Charlotte Catholic High School
Rebecca Wray
Ashbrook High School
Ashley Wright
East Carteret High School
Alison Wright
Early College of Forsyth
Jennie Yearick
Porter Ridge High School
Amy Zinn
Charlotte Latin School
Out-of-State
Alabama
Amy Kathryn
Gannon Mountain Brook High School
Sarah Hyde
Vestavia Hills High School
Scott Morris
The Montgomery Academy
Alaska
Dominic Pader
Ketchikan High School
Arizona
Jim Welty
Brophy College Preparatory
California
Paul Case
Crossroads School for Arts & Sciences
Lani Keller
The Bishop’s School
Oscar King
Menlo School
Sean Moloney
Oak Ridge High School
George Ramos
Chadwick School
Valerie Ross
Castilleja School
Jonah Steinhart
Tamalpais High School
Ted Theodosopoulos
Nueva School
Katherine Ward
Aragon High School
Justin Yaeger
Viewpoint School
Colorado
Karen Amidon
Peak to Peak Charter School
Brian Domokos
Highlands Ranch High School
Michael Mazenko
Cherry Creek High School
Lisa Sutterer
Littleton High School
Connecticut
Thomas Drake
The Hotchkiss School
Katie Fleishman
The Hotchkiss School
Selena Gell
Choate Rosemary Hall
Delaware
Gregory Guldin*
St. Andrew’s School
Florida
Luis Bravim
Cardinal Gibbons High School
Cristina Busto*
Belen Jesuit Preparatory School
Martha Deweese
Berkeley Preparatory School
Patricia Dodson
Middleton High School
Laura Duguid
Episcopal School of Jacksonville
Jeanette Gonzalez-Rojas
Christopher Columbus High School
Kathryn Kehoe
Ponte Vedra High School
Stewart Parker
Winter Park High School
Brian Potter-Racine
Shorecrest Preparatory School
Kristina Renaud
Henry B. Plant High School
Lynn Schuster
Lawton Chiles High School
Georgia
Jennifer Andriano
Chamblee Charter High School
Lesley Carnes
Woodward Academy
Cathie Lawson
North Cobb High School
Cristi LeBron
The Walker School
Gregory Mancini
The Paideia School
James Mason
Augusta Preparatory Day School
Daniel Searl
The Westminster Schools
Jason Smith
Pace Academy
Kate Towery
Athens Academy
Illinois
Andrea Fritz
William Fremd High School
Kristin Glover
Prairie Ridge High School
Allison Hennings
Oak Park and River Forest High School
Geriann Pioquinto
Adlai E. Stevenson High School
Jacqueline Pritchard
New Trier Township High School
Chris Tennyson
Lake Forest Academy
Indiana
Don Fox The
Culver Academies
Matthew McGrath
Park Tudor School
Amah Medard
The Culver Academies
Layton Payne-Elliott
Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School
Iowa
Jessica Kiburz
Walnut Creek Campus
Kansas
Byron Ruhter
Wichita Collegiate School
Kentucky
Jacob Anders
Nelson County High School
Linda Dewees
Henry Clay High School
Danielle Picken
Kentucky Country Day School
Daniel Zakem
Dupont Manual Magnet High School
Louisiana
Katie Antis
Metairie Park Country Day School
Joel Causey
Isidore Newman School
Mitch Chapoton
Jesuit High School
Olaseni Fadipe
Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts
Lisa Hartman
Benjamin Franklin High School
Maryland
Michele Beach
Walt Whitman High School
Ann Beachley
Urbana High School
Devina Bhalla
Gilman School
Mary Bishop
Tuscarora High School
Sanford Buxbaum
Notre Dame Preparatory School
Lee Kladky (retired)
Randi Lambert
Towson High School
Robert Redei
Severn School
Crystal Shelley
Wilde Lake Middle School
Andrew Villwock
Broadneck High School
Massachusetts
Stephen Belsky
Groton School
George Larivee
Concord Academy
Timothy Marten
Arlington High School
Tasha Otenti
Milton Academy
Mike Pojman (retired)
Julia Rivellino-Lyons
Deerfield Academy
Daniel Schneider
Phillips Academy
Michigan
Ashley Fox
Washtenaw International High School
Beth Kozak
Caledonia High School
Brett Sidle
Detroit Country Day School
Kelly Starkey (Katz)
Cranbrook Kingswood Upper School
Minnesota
Kristin Benson
Edina High School
Sarah Connelly
Highland Park Senior High School
Catherine Pearson
Breck School
Mark Peterson
Benilde-Saint Margaret’s School
Missouri
John Heath
Parkway South High School
Susan Shortt
Visitation Academy
New Hampshire
Meredith Finch
St. Paul’s School
New Jersey
Shane Carey
West Morris Mendham High School
John Cheddar
Westfield High School
Erin Chiaravalloti
The Lawrenceville School
James Coe
Newark Academy
Chetna Desai
Hackensack High School
Jinni Durham
Wardlaw-Hartridge School
Susana Fernandez
Livingston High School
Nicole Hoppe
Montclair Kimberley Academy
Clare Kennedy (retired)
Marc Weinstein
Middlesex County Academy for Science, Math and Engineering Technology
Bill Williams
The Lawrenceville School
New Mexico
Shant Zadiryan
UWC-USA
New York
Kim Airoldi
Hunter College High School
Molly Rose
Avila Avenues: The World School
Julio Benitez
Beacon School
Eileen Corigliano
Staten Island Academy
Irving Kagan
Hunter College High School
Julie Kenyon
Blind Brook High School
Anthony Ketterer
Comsewogue High School
Cynthia Maupin
The Bronxville School
Melissa McLees
Cold Spring Harbor Jr. Sr. High School
Marguerite Moyer
Vestal Senior High School
Christopher Rose
Regis High School
Ohio
John Adams
Cleveland School of Science and Medicine
William Adler
Hathaway Brown School
Joe Barresi
Shaker Heights High School
Todd Gilbert
Western Reserve Academy
Sean Martin
Upper Arlington High School
Michael Piergalski
Indian Hill High School
Mark Steedly
Sycamore High School
Pennsylvania
Heather Arters
Garnet Valley
Tara Brouda
Central Bucks High School South
Heather Dietz
Hampton High School
Michelle Friedman
Germantown Academy
Justin Gilken
Julia R. Masterman Laboratory and Demonstration School
Matthew Hopson
Downingtown STEM Academy
Joan Imms-Geiser
Harriton High School
Tenaz Purdy
Pennsbury
Devon Renock
Shady Side Academy
Alyson Solomon (retired)
Scott Stein
Springside Chestnut Hill Academy
Rhode Island
Chad Ploskina
St. George’s School
Roy Williams
St. George’s School
South Carolina
Laura Hankin Lewin
College of Charleston Residence Life
Rebecca Richardson
Dorman High School
Tennessee
Travis Barclay
Montgomery Bell Academy
Nancy Gates
Memphis University School
Sharon Glenn
Ensworth High School
Tracy Harmon
Franklin High School
Cecily Honeycutt
Baylor School
Mackey Luffman
University School of Nashville
Robert Mullins
White Station High School
Duke Richey
McCallie School
David Tran
St. Agnes Academy
Jennifer Webster
The Harpeth Hall School
Texas
Michele Amini
The John Cooper School
Leigh Block
Fort Worth Country Day
Jennifer Cambre
School of Science and Engineering
Andrew Howell
Round Rock High School
Michael Jennings
L.C. Anderson High School
Rachel Martinez
Klein Independent School District
Erin McKillip
Central High School
Claire Mrozek
Episcopal School of Dallas
Tom Perryman
Greenhill School
Stephen Quander
Moises E Molina High School
Hwang Yi
Westlake Academy
Utah
Jessica Holtry
Northridge High School
Laila Lamani
West High School
Betsy McGee
The Waterford School
Daniel Osipovitch
The Waterford School
Anna Williams
Park City High School
Virginia
Elizabeth Beckwith
Western Albemarle High School
Douglas Burns
Wakefield High School
Paul Erb
Woodberry Forest School
John Green
St. Christopher’s School
Teresa Hamrick
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
Diane Holland
Yorktown High School
Katherine Letellier
Riverbend High School
Michael Miller
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
Lindsey Perdue
Independence High School
Laura Petro
The Potomac School
Matt Porter
Virginia Episcopal School
Tommy Pratt
Episcopal High School
Adam Singer
Franklin County High School
Jim Zarro
Washington-Liberty High School
Washington
Paloma Borreguero
Lakeside School
Patrick Grant University
Preparatory Academy
Washington, D.C.
Colleen Dunn
St. Albans School
Joshua Link
Maret School
Julia López Fuentes
National Cathedral School
Wisconsin
Erin Heaney
University School of Milwaukee
Sarah Kowalske
Hamilton High School
International
Brazil
Renato Beran
Coégio Invictus
Ana Carolina de Souza Ferreira
Poliedro Educação
Thomas Yates
Graded – The American School of Sao Paulo
Canada
Jonathan Arendt
Crescent School
John Braeckman
Lakefield College School
Kyle Cardinale
Havergal College
Arun Chauhan
Castlebrooke Secondary School
Allison Gottlieb
Greenwood College School
Liesbeth Halbertsma
Pretty River Academy
Christian Heffernan
Upper Canada College
Jeff LaForge
St. Andrew’s College
Jaime Malic
St. Clement’s School
Monika Rasciauskas
Michael Power/St. Joseph High School
Stephen Rowe
Port Moody Secondary School
Ivan Sambles
Elmwood School
Sophie Tsonis
Branksome Hall
Sara Vidotto
St. Ignatius High School
Alberts Vitols
Glenforest Secondary School
Janet Zajdlik
West Island College
China
Nadina Schneider
Chinese International School
Shengli Zhu
Shanghai American School-Puxi
India
Kalyan Kumar V
Sreenidhi International School
Vishnumurthy Rao
Shanti Bhavan Residential School
Jamaica
Sylvia Browne
American International School of Kingston
Japan
Dwain Confer
The American School in Japan
Ruben Pinzon
UWC ISAK Japan
Jordan
Andrew Harcourt (retired)
Peru
Whitney Little
Colegio Franklin Delano Roosevelt, The American School of Lima
Switzerland
Frances Barré
Aiglon College
Taiwan
Kim Lin
International Bilingual School at Hsinchu Science Park
Turkey
Fatma Vildan Demirer
The Koç School
Dunya Onen
Robert College
United Kingdom
Syed Ahmed
Regent High School
Bethany Arnott
Hagley Catholic High School
Isobel Birch
Hawarden High School
Steve Bukoan
Ysgol Friars
Anthony Bulteel
Broadoak Academy
Madeleine Caulfield
City of London Academy Highgate Hill
Adrian Daly
Belper School
Tim Eddis
Eton College
Julia Greenbury
Clifton College
Sam Mazzarella
UWC Atlantic College
Melissa Murray
Victoria College Belfast
James Oldfield
Wilson’s School
Toby Percival
Shrewsbury School
Joshua Plotkin
The Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys’ School
Paul Spencer
Sherborne School
Nadja Stephens-Mikesch
Wycliffe College
Leigh Sitch
Langley School
Sharon Toogood
St. Andrews RC Secondary School
James Whitehead
Mount Kelly
Jialu Zhang
Harris Westminster Sixth Form
* 2023 Impact Educator
+ Morehead-Cain Alumni
