Yamile “Yaya” McBride, M.Ed.

Her story

None of me is wrong.

Yaya is a first-generation American of Colombian descent who spent twenty-five-plus years inside public education — as a classroom teacher, a school administrator, a director of student services, and a builder of the family engagement frameworks that actually moved the numbers schools care about.

She is also the woman who spent most of those years learning to stop making herself smaller. Loud, large, and unmistakably herself — the fat, the skinny, the strong, the soft, the right, the wrong, all of it welcome. That belief is not a slogan for her. It is the thing she had to live her way into, one difficult chapter at a time.

Today that shows up in three places: the RESILIENCE experience she brings to students and schools, the leadership and coaching work she does with the adults running those same institutions, and the memoir that tells the story underneath all of it.