Emily Burnor Crump is the Senior Managing Director of Talent at Teach For America Massachusetts. Emily's objective is to promote human-centered recruitment and retention practices in our schools and workplaces. In her role, she works with over 50 schools across Massachusetts to recruit, retain, and develop  teachers and leaders. Emily started her career as a Teach For America corps member in the Bronx, New York, where she taught bilingual education and completed her masters degree in education. She was a founding teacher and later Director of Operations at Brooke East Boston Charter School. Emily loves learning languages and speaks both Spanish and Portuguese, and lived abroad in Mexico, Chile, and Brazil. In her free time, Emily enjoys training capoeira (a Brazilian martial art), and traveling around New England with her two kids, husband, and dog.