Cayanna Good Ph.D, Deputy Director, Innovations & Academic Strategy
Cayanna Good currently serves as the Deputy Director of Innovation and Academic Strategy for the Governor’s Office of Student Achievement in Georgia. In her role, she oversees the Governor's Honors Program, the Reading Mentors Program, Innovative Teacher Professional Learning Grants, and the GOSA Innovation Fund Grant. These innovative educational programs are all designed to improve student achievement and accelerate positive student outcomes. Prior to joining GOSA, Cayanna served as the Director of School Improvement for the Georgia Department of Education.
Additionally, she has worked as both a high school and elementary teacher, has served as the overseeing Partner for TNTP's Georgia Teaching Fellows, a statewide alternative teacher training and certification pipeline, and as the Managing Director for Teach For America’s School Leadership Initiative. Cayanna has also worked as an Education Program Manager in the Georgia Department of Education’s Charter School Division, where she worked on charter policy issues in collaboration with the State's multiple educational agencies. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from Fisk University, a Master of Education from Georgia State University, and a Ph.D. from Mercer University.
Additionally, she has worked as both a high school and elementary teacher, has served as the overseeing Partner for TNTP's Georgia Teaching Fellows, a statewide alternative teacher training and certification pipeline, and as the Managing Director for Teach For America’s School Leadership Initiative. Cayanna has also worked as an Education Program Manager in the Georgia Department of Education’s Charter School Division, where she worked on charter policy issues in collaboration with the State's multiple educational agencies. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from Fisk University, a Master of Education from Georgia State University, and a Ph.D. from Mercer University.
Dorothy Jones-Davis, PhD, Executive Director, Nation of Makers
Dorothy Jones-Davis is the Executive Director of Nation of Makers, a national nonprofit whose mission is to support the full range of organizations that impact makers, by encouraging connections, broadly sharing resources, facilitating funding opportunities, engaging in policy development, and advocating for the maker movement.
Prior to her current position, Dorothy was a co-founder and co-producer of the National Maker Faire and the DC Mini Maker Faire, and served as an AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow in the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Directorate for Engineering. In this role, she investigated how the maker movement can be leveraged to improve access to engineering pathways for traditionally underrepresented populations.
Dorothy is deeply interested in finding ways to create connections between a diversity of makers, leveraging their collective skills to harness solutions for the world’s challenges – grand and small. In her spare time, she enjoys building and making with her eight-year-old daughter.
Prior to her current position, Dorothy was a co-founder and co-producer of the National Maker Faire and the DC Mini Maker Faire, and served as an AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow in the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Directorate for Engineering. In this role, she investigated how the maker movement can be leveraged to improve access to engineering pathways for traditionally underrepresented populations.
Dorothy is deeply interested in finding ways to create connections between a diversity of makers, leveraging their collective skills to harness solutions for the world’s challenges – grand and small. In her spare time, she enjoys building and making with her eight-year-old daughter.
