Shareea Woods

Shareea is the director of the Texas College Access Network (TxCAN). TxCAN convenes Local College Access Networks to facilitate the rapid adoption of promising practices. It also serves as a data hub for college access programs by providing interactive FAFSA dashboards and other benchmarking tools.

Prior to joining the Educate Texas team in 2018, Shareea directed the After the Bell Alliance for Dallas Afterschool, advocating for funding and support for expanded, affordable after-school programs. Prior to that, she served as the chief program officer for the Young Women’s Preparatory Network, where she helped establish and support public all-girls schools across Texas.

Shareea holds a bachelor’s in psychology from the University of Southern California and a master’s of public policy from the Harvard University Kennedy School.