Courtney C. Reeve, Executive Director
Courtney C. Reeve is the Executive Director of Greenbrier Learning Center, a community-based nonprofit organization serving at-risk children and families in Arlington, Virginia by providing innovative afterschool and summer programs to 60 students from low-income, immigrant, and refugee backgrounds, as well as workshops to their parents. In her two years with Greenbrier Learning Center, Ms. Reeve has been recognized for achieving greater results in the organization’s work with children while increasing capacity and dramatically improving the sustainability of the organization. Ms. Reeve is active in her community, serving on the Executive Committee of the Young Nonprofit Professionals Network of DC’s Board of Directors and coordinating the Young Executive Directors’ Roundtable, as well as participating in the Arlington Chamber of Commerce Community Action Committee. She is also a guest lecturer on public health’s implications on education in emergencies for Johns Hopkins University.
Prior to her work with Greenbrier Learning Center, Ms. Reeve worked for the International Rescue Committee to improve primary education in Liberia, collaborating with the Liberian Ministry of Education and World Bank consultants. In the US, she has directed multi-site education programs for all age groups, and has provided consulting and technical assistance to public charter schools on budget development and planning as well as to Gulf Coast schools on serving displaced populations after Hurricane Katrina. She is an accomplished speaker, having presented at annual conferences of the American Psychological Association (APA), the National Association for Elementary School Principals (NAESP), the National Association for Bilingual Education (NABE), and the Georgia Conference on Refugee Resettlement, on topics from language and literacy development to supporting refugee children’s success in schools.
- Ms. Reeve holds a BS in Bilingual Education from Boston University, an Ed.M. from Harvard University Graduate School of Education, and a Master’s Certificate in Global Mental Health from the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma.
