Nehemiah Frank is a fierce advocate for charter and community schools. He has public policy experience and is the founder and editor in chief of the Black Wall St. Times. Frank is also a middle school teacher at Oklahoma's top performing charter school, Sankofa Middle School of the Performing Arts a member of the Deborah Brown Community Schools. Nehemiah believes that charter and community partnership schools are the paths to closing the achievement gap and curving the school-to-prison pipeline. Frank earned his B.A. in political science from Oklahoma State University.