Shital C. Shah

Prior to joining the Department, Shital was the Director of Philanthropic Engagement at the American Federation of Teachers and also served on the 2020 Biden-Harris Transition Team for the US Department of Education. While at the AFT, she cultivated and strengthened relationships with philanthropic and education industry partners to garner support for improving children’s well-being, creating powerful learning, building teacher capacity, and fostering school and community collaboration. In this role she also oversaw AFT’s inter- epartmental community school strategy, as well as the Center for School Improvement Institute. She has spent over a decade working in the field of community schools policy and practice, providing strategic support and guidance to state and local affiliates related to policy, advocacy and school and district implementation of approaches to the community school strategy and extended learning time, including implications for collective bargaining. During her time with the national Coalition for Community Schools, as the Manager of Policy & Partnerships, she lead partnership development; federal and state policy coordination; and helping develop federal policy recommendations.