Camille Forbes
Cohort 4 Alum - 2024-2025

Camille Forbes is the principal of PS/MS 206 José Celso Barbosa in District 4 in East Harlem Manhattan. A native New Yorker, Camille is a career educator of 31 years, all of which have been spent in the East Harlem community. While attending Hunter College, she completed her student teaching in various schools in District 4. Her 6-year teaching career was spent at East Harlem Block School. Camille then became a Staff Developer/Literacy Coach at PS 206 where she not only provided professional development for the staff, but she also facilitated workshops for educators throughout the district.

In her 16th year, Camille became the assistant principal and 3 years later she was promoted to principal where she has served in that capacity for the last 12 years. During her tenure and under her leadership, the school expanded from a grade 3 through 5 elementary school to a 3 – 8 elementary and middle school… PS/MS 206. The only 3rd through 8th grade school in NYC that has a Dual Language NEST program (an inclusive dual language program for students on the autism spectrum).

Camille strives to create and foster a school environment where students become independent thinkers, have a sense of identity and belonging, and they know that their voice is heard and matters.

When she is not working, Camille enjoys traveling within the United States and abroad.