License to Thrive

Dr. Tiffany Cooper Gueye, Educational Innovator

Dr. Tiffany Cooper Gueye is CEO of BELL (Building Educated Leaders for Life).  BELL serves 12,000 scholars in over 70 schools in Baltimore, Boston, Detroit, New York, and Springfield, MA.  

As former Chief Operating Officer, Field Operations, Dr. Cooper Gueye led all program development, service delivery, assessment and evaluation activities, and policy-related initiatives.  Through her leadership, BELL's programs, outcomes and evaluation methods have been nationally recognized as examples of best practices.  Most recently, Dr. Cooper Gueye assisted Senator Barack Obama’s office in the development of legislation to establish summer learning programs to children throughout the country.  She is regarded as an authority on out-of-school-time learning, measurement, and evaluation, and has presented at several conferences including the Grantmakers for Education National Conference and the Center for Summer Learning National Conference.  She has been honored for her work by the Massachusetts Conference for Women and received Boston College’s Donald J. White Teaching Excellence Award.  Additionally, Dr. Cooper Gueye has served as an instructor at Johns Hopkins University and at Boston College.

Dr. Cooper Gueye holds a B.A. degree in Psychology and a Ph.D. in Educational Research, Evaluation and Measurement, both from Boston College.  She began with BELL in 1998 and has served in several capacities including Site Manager, Director of Evaluation, Chief Program Officer and Chief Operating Officer.