Dr. Anya Hurwitz is the Executive Director of SEAL (Sobrato Early Academic Language), an educational nonprofit working to ensure all English Learners/Dual Language Learners in California learn, thrive, and lead. She has a longstanding commitment to creating the conditions for public schools to center students’ assets and meet their diverse needs. Dr. Hurwitz has worked for over 20 years in education as a teacher, school leader, district administrator, and within the educational nonprofit sector. The early part of her career was in New York City where she helped start a small secondary school in the Bronx and then became a Network Leader within the NYC Department of Education to a diverse group of 24 schools, preschool through early college. In 2010, she moved to northern California and began working in the educational nonprofit sector supporting district and school leaders to plan and implement strategic reform efforts. Dr. Hurwitz joined the SEAL team as Deputy Director in 2014 and became Executive Director in 2017. She has a doctorate in educational leadership from UC Berkeley.