Our Team

Please meet a few of our team members with decades of experience in teaching, leadership, and equity work:

Sabrina Hope King, Ed.D

Dr. Sabrina Hope King founded ATAPE Group, LLC in 2012 to leverage her expertise to serve schools and organizations focused on equity, culturally responsive practice, and student achievement. She is committed to the improved education of students of color and all students who need an excellent education to survive in school and in life.

Prior to founding ATAPE Group, LLC Dr. King served as Chief Academic Officer in the Office of Curriculum and Professional Development at the NYCDOE, where she was able to impact the work of over 1600 school communities in the areas of curriculum, professional development and educational equity.

Dr. King is an accomplished strategist, facilitator and public speaker. She enjoys working with individuals and teams interested in tackling equity, achievement, diversity and race and regularly writes on these topics.

**Libby Miller**
Libby Miller has dedicated her career to helping people, systems, and organizations thrive and achieve equitable outcomes. She is an accomplished school leader-turned-nonprofit manager, strategist, and thought partner. Libby previously led high-performing teams as the principal of STRIVE Prep - Federal middle school in Denver, Colorado and the founding principal of Achievement First Providence Mayoral Academy Middle School in Providence, Rhode Island. In recent years, Libby made a shift to operations management and strategy in the nonprofit and education spaces.

Libby’s work at ATAPE Group, LLC is focused on strategy, operations, and communications. She is a results- and relationships-oriented leader who loves helping teams collaborate and achieve strong outcomes. Libby holds a B.A. in Sociology from Bowdoin College, a Masters in Social Work from Washington University in St. Louis, and completed the Relay Graduate School of Education National Principals Academy Fellowship. Libby and her husband, Ryan, raise their four zesty children in Portland, Maine.

Kathryn Vargas

Kathryn is a young professional with a passion for social justice, equity, and helping vulnerable communities. Born and raised in New York City, she graduated with a B.A. in Psychology and Neuroscience from Wesleyan University. Kathryn was a camp counselor for the Fresh Air Fund, program assistant for Breakthrough New York, private tutor, and an Assistant Teacher for a premier private school in Manhattan.

She first joined ATAPE Group, LLC in 2021 as an administrative assistant, and has since expanded her role to Chief of Staff, where she demonstrates excellence in project, operations, and business management, as well as event planning and human resources services.

She is a Breakthrough New York, A Better Chance, and Doris Duke Conservation Scholar alumna.

**John E. Schoener, Ph.D.**
Dr. John E. Schoener is a licensed psychologist with over 30 years of experience providing research and evaluation services to improve teaching and learning to schools and school systems. He taught graduate courses at Bank Street College of Education as well as New York University on Public Policy and Community Issues and Using Data to Build Professional Learning Communities.
At ATAPE Group, LLC, Dr. Schoener leads workshops on Social-Emotional Learning, and Navigating Difficult Conversations. He is a skilled leadership coach that manages complex educational initiatives and decision-making strategies that direct large-scale school reform.

**Jonathan Rust, Ph.D.**
Jonathan serves as a Leadership Coach and Cultural Competency Facilitator. He supports school leaders, guidance counselors, parents and educators in the collective work to create restorative practices that empower students as learners, decision makers and partners in the journey to their success. Through focus groups, workshops and coaching, Jonathan builds collective capacity around the connection between culture and individual and group identity to support schools in translating this knowledge to practices that support improved achievement.
Formerly a school counselor, Jonathan is an Associate Professor of Psychology and Counseling at SUNY New Paltz. His areas of expertise in research, teaching, and consulting provide him a unique understanding of how racial/cultural differences, and the societal power and privilege dynamics associated with these differences, systematically affect the psychosocial development of racially/culturally diverse groups.

Tanya FriedmanTanya has worked in public education for over twenty-five years as a teacher, a school leader, a Literacy Specialist, Instructional Coach and an Equity Facilitator. She earned National Board Certification and was recognized by 826 Vale… — **Tanya Friedman**
Tanya has worked in public education for over twenty-five years as a teacher, a school leader, a Literacy Specialist, Instructional Coach and an Equity Facilitator. She earned National Board Certification and was recognized by 826 Valencia for her outstanding instruction. A trained facilitator with the National Equity Project, the National School Reform Faculty and SFCESS, Tanya has designed and facilitated retreats, seminars and courses focused on leadership, literacy and equity.
At ATAPE Group, LLC, Tanya creates professional learning opportunities to foster an equity consciousness and integrate rigorous culturally relevant and sustaining pedagogy into classroom practice and culture. Using experiential learning, hands-on coaching and inquiry, Tanya inspires and supports educators and leaders to examine their practice through the lenses of structural inequities, intersectionality, personal experience and best practices in literacy instruction. As part of her doctoral program at Hunter College, Tanya is studying how teachers develop the will, capacity and skill to enact pedagogies of transformation, liberation and love. She also serves on the education advisory board of the Perception Institute.
Tanya’s belief that classrooms can be a locus of social change brought her into education, and her commitment to making that true has kept her in the field.