Lavinia Mackall
Partner, CT Network and School Growth
As Partner, CT Network and School Growth, Lavinia Mackall leads TMT’s school support strategy in an effort to grow the number of high-quality charter schools serving students throughout the state of Connecticut. She leads this programming to ensure academic quality in CT charter schools, with a focus on scaling high-quality, multi-school operators.
Prior to joining The Mind Trust, Lavinia was a leader at Success Academy Charter Schools for over a decade. She rose from teacher to principal and turned around a failing elementary school in East Harlem. Her school was one of 364 schools nationwide to receive a National Blue Ribbon Award for School Excellence in 2019.
After her tenure as principal, Lavinia served as both the Head of K-12 Learning Quality and a School Superintendent to maximize school performance across 50 elementary, middle, and high schools in Brooklyn, Harlem, The Bronx, and Queens.
She holds a master of arts in teaching from Relay Graduate School of Education and a bachelor of arts in music from Vassar College. Lavinia lives in Connecticut, where she was born and raised, with her husband and 3 children.