About Teach CA

As Teach NJ’s executive director, Katie Katz oversees Teach NJ’s annual campaign, community engagement and mobilization efforts across the state. She joined Teach NJ from the Englewood Health Foundation where, as a major gifts officer, she managed a portfolio of major donors and cultivated philanthropic partnerships between donors, physicians, and Englewood Health. Prior to her time at Englewood Health, Katie worked at The New Jewish Home in Manhattan as associate director of capital campaigns. A third-generation New Jersey resident and Jewish day school alumna, Katie holds an MBA from Brandeis University in nonprofit management as well as a master’s degree in Jewish professional leadership. She lives in Teaneck with her husband, Ezra, and their three children.

Miriam Mark is a revenue growth leader and go-to market specialist who serves in an advisory and fractional capacity for leading technology and nonprofit companies. She has grown up alongside the tech ecosystem, running sales at multiple startups. Miriam served as global head of Account Management and Growth Enablement at WeWork, and was instrumental in building their global sales organization from acquisition to retention and growth. Earlier in her career, she led sales at Farmigo, an online farmers market, with the mission to transform and accelerate global adoption of an alternative food system. She began her career at Shopping.com, an online comparison-shopping company acquired by eBay. Miriam is passionate about creating equal educational opportunities for all children regardless of ability, inspired by her oldest child with special needs. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and four children ages 9-19.