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YEO Bios
Tiffany Hamilton

City Councilmember
Port Arthur, Texas
City Councilmember Tiffany Hamilton represents District 2 on the Port
Arthur City Council. She is also a partner at TLHamilton Enterprises, LLC.
Hamilton received a bachelor of business administration in marketing
degree from Xavier University of Louisiana, and received her M.B.A. from
American InterContinental University.

Matt Haney

Vice President, School Board
San Francisco, California
Vice President Haney has fought for public education over the past 10
years as an advocate, educator, organizer, and policy analyst. Haney
has introduced and passed new policies and initiatives related to school
discipline, student voice, diverse and relevant curriculum, African American
student achievement, computer science and technology, local contracting
and hiring, gun violence, and unaccompanied immigrant children. As the
director of policy for Dream Corps, he leads policy advocacy for #cut50, a bipartisan initiative to
cut the prison population in half in 10 years, and #YesWeCode, an initiative to create a pipeline for
100,000 low-opportunity youth to become coders, computer engineers, and designers. Haney serves
as an adjunct faculty member at the Stanford University d.school, where he uses human centered
design to incubate new ideas in education. Haney earned a B.A. from UC Berkeley, an M.A. from the
Stanford University School of Education, a J.D. from Stanford Law School, and an LL.M. in human
rights from National University of Ireland. @matthaneysf

Matt Hansen
State Senator

Lincoln, Nebraska

YEO National Convening | 2015

State Senator Matt Hansen serves in the Nebraska Legislature,
representing District 26 in Northeast Lincoln. He was elected in November
2014 and serves on the Legislature’s General Affairs, Urban Affairs, and
Government, Military and Veterans Affairs Committees and is the Chair of
Enrollment and Review. A Lincoln native, he is a graduate of the University
of Nebraska–Lincoln and the University Of Nebraska College Of Law.

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