Mildred Otero
President, Leadership for Educational Equity
Mildred leads the organization, her responsibilities include ensuring LEE members have high quality member experiences across all leadership pathways. This includes high quality programming, supports and leadership development nationally and in local sites across the country.
Before joining LEE, Mildred served as chief education counsel for the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, & Pensions, where she managed the Senate majority’s education agenda, and its policy development and strategy for children from cradle to career including early childhood education, elementary and secondary education, higher education, and the workforce.
Mildred earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the State University of New York at Albany and a Master of Social Work degree from the New York University Silver School of Social Work.