With over twenty years of combined experience in the social service, education, and arts sectors, Munira Khapra-Reininger supports organizations by telling their story and rallying engagement in innovative ways. Most recently, she was Director of Development and External Communications at Broadway Housing Communities––which is globally recognized for founding the Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art & Storytelling as part of their affordable housing and community development efforts in West Harlem. She brings rich experience from serving as senior leadership for values-driven cultural institutions, including Eyebeam, Creative Time, and Queens Museum. As a consultant, she supports the fundraising, communications, strategic planning, and implementation of DEIA frameworks for her clients, who have included National Sawdust, The Trust for Governors Island, Young People’s Choir, Leslie-Lohman Museum, and Data & Society.

Munira is committed to dismantling racism, a core value recognized by artist-activists who tap her expertise in the production of new works. Currently, she holds advisory roles at The Center for Artistic Inquiry and Reporting as well as an inclusive family center, Complete Playground, soon to open in Lower Manhattan, where she and her family call home.

Kat is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) licensed in New York. She has been working in public accounting since 2009, starting her career in partnership tax at PwC, and then pivoting to consulting at Ernst & Young.

Kat is also a parent of 3 elementary school-aged children, one girl and two boys. Kat has been a vocal advocate for her children since their very young age. They have dealt with various diagnoses – Autism, ADHD, Auditory Processing Delay, Eye Tracking Disorder, Hypotonia and Anxiety.

Kat witnessed firsthand how early intervention, focused quality therapies and peer modeling /inclusive learning settings made a huge difference in the development of her children. She is a big supporter of special needs families, and often informally consults families on various EI and CPSE therapies, neuropsych evaluations, school choices and parent advocacy. 

She lives in the Financial District with her husband and children, and speaks fluent Russian and proficient Turkish.

Amy Beth is an operational consultant who specializes in educational programming, systems, and management. With over two decades of experience in the education industry and 15 years in leadership roles, she brings detailed knowledge of required policies and procedures, and supports teams to implement effective decision-making, strong communication, professionalism, and positive public relations.   

Amy Beth is passionate about creating inclusive environments for staff, families, and children.  She advises on best practices that will foster positive relationships and establish, and maintain welcoming company cultures. During the pandemic, Amy Beth felt it was socially responsible to attend Mindful
Schools to learn meditation and mindfulness practices to be able to support the changing dynamics within organizations. 

Alongside consulting, Amy Beth co-founded a company, Water Automation, where she applies her operational knowledge and experience in the launch of their first product aquaHALT.  

Amy Beth received a Master of Science in Early Education with a focus on Literacy from Wheelock College (now Boston University), Bachelor of Arts in English, with a minor in Modern Dance from Keene State College, a Director II Leadership Certification from the Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care, and a NY State (birth through second grade) Teaching Certification.

Founder & President of Important Steps, Inc. established in 2003. Ms. Reznik is a former Teacher of Mathematics who graduated from Hunter College with MS, in the Early Childhood/Bilingual Special Education Program in 1995. She has more than 25 years of experience in providing highest quality services to infants and toddlers in need and their families, as well as overseeing and guiding one of the primogenital  Early Childhood Program in NYC. Prior to Important Steps, Inc. Ms. Reznik was a President of another Early Childhood Program from 2001 to 2003.

Important Steps, Inc. is an Early Intervention Program that is funded and regulated by NYSDOH & NYCDOH as well as Westchester, NY  and provides home-community and facility based therapeutic and evaluation services for children ages birth to 3 years old. Important Steps offers therapy (OT, PT, ST, Special Ed, ABA, SW etc. ) and education to children with developmental disabilities in 5 boroughs of NYC as well as in Westchester, including children at risk for developmental, emotional and behavioral disorders.  Important Steps guides the families of these children, providing them with support and knowledge that enables them to meet their children’s needs. Ms. Reznik has trained a large group of professionals to reach an excellent theoretical and practical command of their fields and integrate the perspectives of their colleagues into their own thinking. Ms. Reznik recognizes the individuality of each person she supports and seeks to achieve Important Steps’ objectives by using a multidisciplinary team approach, with an essential component being each child’s family. Important Steps responds to the needs of families and their children with disabilities and is unwavering in that commitment. 

Janet joined The IDEAL School of Manhattan as its Head of School in February 2016. Janet led the process of expanding the K-8 school to earn its High School Certificate of Registration from the Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York and its accreditation, Grades K-12, from the New York State Association of Independent Schools (NYSAIS). Under Janet’s leadership, student enrollment increased from under 150 to more than 200. Janet has led the development and expansion of a wide range of inclusive programs, all differentiated and individualized to meet each student’s needs. During the period when schools were closing throughout the nation, Janet led her team in the creation of an online school with full days, synchronous lessons, and after-school activities.

Prior to IDEAL, Janet spent 13 years at St. Paul’s School for Girls, a fifth through twelfth grade all-girls day school in Maryland. She began there in 2002 as an English teacher, soon became the English Department Chair and then Academic Dean, and was the Associate Head for Academics from 2011-2016. From 2010-2017, she was also a Trustee of the Online School for Girls, where she served as Chair of the Education Committee and a member of the Finance Committee and worked to promote the mission, development, and brand recognition of this new school. Janet spent sevens years, from 1993 until 2000, as an English teacher at Akiba Hebrew Academy (now Jack Barrack Academy), a coed, pluralistic Jewish day school that prepares future leaders to work for a better world through acts of justice and compassion. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Janet also earned a Master’s in Education from the University of Pennsylvania. She was a member of the 2009-2010 Cohort of the NAIS Fellowship for Aspiring Heads, attended the 2016 NAIS Institute for New Heads, and has demonstrated her commitment to professional development through active participation in and presentations at national and regional independent school conferences.

Entrepreneur, Consultant, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Strategist (DEI), and Educator. Chair, NYAEYC DEI committee, engaging members and non-members in Courageous Conversations along with the other committee members. She was involved in helping to create The Harlem Playspace and Learning Center, the first Playspace in Harlem for families with newborns to three-year-olds. She has a Baccalaureate of Arts degree in Spanish and Hispanic Studies from Hobart and William Smith Colleges, and a Masters of Arts degree in Early Childhood Education.

She is a Professor and an early childhood consultant focused on supporting families with infants and toddlers. As Vice President of Operations of Sabree Education Services, a subsidiary of her event planning company, Sabree Special Events, LLC, training childcare providers who service families with infants and toddlers with a focus on historically underrepresented families. We co-facilitate classes for parents with their infants/toddlers and plan family oriented events.

She is the co-founder and CEO of Urban Kids Journeys, a nonprofit organization providing experiences for families with a focus of brain development and the power of play to historically underrepresented families. She is a partner for sister company Sabree Education Services Gambia, a NGO in Gambia focused on early childhood education in Gambia and working collaboratively with other countries in Africa on early childhood projects.

She is thrilled to be able to do now what she has always loved: Working with youth, from very young children to college age young adults.