Jeneca Parker-Tongue
Cohort 4 Alum - 2024-2025

Jeneca Parker-Tongue is a lifelong learner, wife, and mother of two young children, Harrison and Eleanor. She is the Founding Director of the Hunter College Collaborative for Social Emotional Learning & Leading (C-SELL), an organization dedicated to helping school systems cultivate agents of change at every level—from leaders to students—who work together to co-create and transform school cultures.

Through C-SELL, Jeneca provides innovative certification programs, embodied leadership coaching, and collaborative school teaming models that build agency among staff and students, ensuring that belonging becomes an authentic and sustainable part of a school’s culture.

Before founding C-SELL, Jeneca served for more than a decade as a Principal and Assistant Principal in New York City Public Schools, with experience spanning early childhood through high school. She is known for designing collaborative structures that strengthen instruction for racially, culturally, and linguistically diverse learners and for coaching adults to enhance emotional intelligence and leadership effectiveness.

Jeneca holds a B.A. in International Development Studies from Furman University and an M.S. in Leadership for Educational Change, with a focus on Special Education, from Bank Street College of Education. She is an alumna of multiple leadership fellowships, including the Gray Fellowship for Principal Excellence, NYC Leadership Academy, and Teachers Network Leadership Institute MetLife Fellowship.

In 2023, Jeneca received the Distinguished Principal Award of Manhattan from the Middle School Principal Association of NYC and a national SEL Leadership Award from BlackSEL. She is currently pursuing a doctorate in Educational Leadership.