Dr. Ana Tavares

Deputy Superintendent of Equity, Community and Family Advancement

Dr. Ana Tavares most recently served as an Elementary School Superintendent of Region 4 in Boston Public Schools. She was also the principal of the Rafael Hernández PreK-8 Dual Language School. She is first-generation of Dominican descent, as a principal she served a mostly first-generation Dominican student body which fulfilled a lifelong dream of working within and for her community. The strong community-centered focus of the Hernández School continues to inform her leadership. Dr. Tavares’s leadership experience spans over 29 years and has focused on increasing the learning opportunities for students of color through their linguistic and cultural assets, partnering with families to provide access to high-quality public education for all students.

Dr. Tavares has an undergraduate degree from Bryn Mawr College, a master’s degree from Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a doctorate in education from the Lynch School of Education at Boston College. Dr. Tavares and her husband, Dr. Fidencio Saldaña, have three school-aged children, two are students in Boston Public Schools. Dr. Tavares resides in Roslindale with her family.

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