Staff | Teachers College Columbia University

Esther Cyna (Program Administrator) is a Ph.D. student in the History and Education program at Teachers College, where she also works as a Department Doctoral Fellow for the Educating Harlem project at Teachers College. She earned a Master’s Degree in American Studies from the Ecole Normale Supérieure in France. Her research interests include the history of desegregation, school finance litigation and standards-based reform in the United States, specifically in North Carolina. Esther is a volunteer teacher at the Rose M. Singer Center for women on Rikers Island.

Chiara Davis Fuller graduated with a Master’s from the International Educational Development program at Teachers College, Columbia University in May 2017. She studied International Relations at Mount Holyoke College and earned her Master’s degree in Education from Cambridge College in Massachusetts. She is continuing her passion to promote diversity, culturally relevant pedagogy, social justice and equity through the Curriculum Studies program in the Curriculum and Teaching Department at Teachers College, Columbia University. 

Chiara Davis Fuller possesses 13 years of experience in international education with a focus in English as a Second Language education. She taught, coached and organized health and educational projects for youth and their families by serving as an Education and Community Development Peace Corps Volunteer in Barranco Village, a Garifuna community in Belize. She was the Coordinator of the Language Department at Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Ecuador Sede Esmeraldas in Ecuador and Supervisor to international assistant language teachers in Yamagata, Japan. She has taught English language courses, organized educational seminars and developed curricula for students and teachers in Japan, Ecuador and Nepal.  

She continues her passion for advocating for diversity, multicultural education and inclusiveness as a Harlem Education Activities Fund (HEAF) middle school Parliamentary debate coach, global teacher educator and education event coordinator. Chiara D. Fuller is excited about working as a Program Administrator with the dynamic and outstanding School Law Institute team this summer!