Mark Comesañas serves as Executive Director of My Brother’s Keeper Newark, a strategy of the Newark Opportunity Youth Network. Prior to this role, Mark was the Head of Schools and a founding board member of LEAD Charter School, New Jersey’s first and only alternative education charter district. Mark also served as a middle and high school teacher and educational leader within Newark Public Schools for 13 years. He is an active member on several community non-profit boards including his local church - La Vid Verdadera (translated: The True Vine) Gateway U, and The Village Revival Project. Comesañas holds a Master’s degree in Educational Leadership from Montclair State University, a Bachelor’s degree from Rutgers University, and is currently working towards a Doctoral degree in Educational & Organizational Leadership at the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education. In his spare time, Comesañas enjoys coaching basketball and spending time with his wife Leslie and three intelligent and beautiful children - Kaitlyn, Jordan and Jacob.