Kayla Cato-Piersaint

Kayla is a first generation American, born to parents who hail from Jamaica. She received her B.S.Ed in Early Childhood Education with a dual degree in Special Education. After working in the intensive special education field, she went back to school and pursued her M.S.Ed in Literacy Education. Today, at Queens College, Kayla is the Academic Program Coordinator in the Office of Educational and Community Programs. In this role she extends the mission of the school through program design, course advisement, curriculum organization, and field placement partnerships/initiatives. She also serves as an Adjunct Professor in the Africana Studies Department.