internationally (i.e., South Korea, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates) and 9+ years with public and charter schools in America (i.e., Alabama, Georgia, Arkansas, Minnesota). 

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Ms. Wise has also traveled extensively, volunteering for nonprofit organizations across Africa, Europe, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East. 

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She holds Educational Leadership, Education Administration, and K-12 Principalship certifications in Alabama, Georgia, and Minnesota.

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Ms. Wise is the author of three children’s books: Johnny’s Birthday Surprise, Much Hairdo About Nothing, and Bye-Bye Big Bully. 

 

She founded the Mary Hines Johnson Foundation in 2022, which she named after her great-great-aunt, Mary Hines Johnson, who started the first school for black children in segregated Franklin, Georgia, in 1941. 

 

Ms. Wise understands the urgency of implementing programs that target at-risk girls and women because she went from an honor roll student and “Most Spirited Senior” to a high school dropout by seventeen.

 

She states, “I was a trauma-filled adolescent without the tools to navigate that space effectively until I gained the self-determination, preservation, and actualization to own the process.” She adds, “I want to exemplify to other at-risk girls and women that one can overcome past challenges because I did it, and they can too.”

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