Rosalynne Duff

Rosalynne Duff is a transformative educational leader and activist with more than a decade of experience in urban education. She began her teaching career as a substitute teacher in the largest school system in Kentucky. In 2015, she migrated to Atlanta to become a Founding Teacher of Kindezi Old Fourth Ward charter school.

Nationally, she studied the confluence of social and emotional learning (SEL), mindfulness, equity, and leadership through the Transformative Educational Leadership (TEL) program at the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, NY. Internationally, she contributed to the Social, Emotional, and Ethical (SEE) Learning curriculum, overseen by the Holiness the Dalai Lama through Emory University’s Center for Contemplative Science and Compassion-Based Ethics. She traveled to India to speak on a global teaching panel about the impact of SEE Learning in an urban classroom setting. 

She is currently studying Teaching and Learning with a concentration on Teaching and Teacher Education at Georgia State University. Her doctoral research will focus on a framework for embodying equity, justice, and liberation in education. Rosalynne earned her B.S. in Communications with a minor in Pan African Studies from the University of Louisville. She also holds a M.A.T. in Elementary Education from Bellarmine University.