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Roblin Webb – Bio

Roblin Webb Board of Advisors, Founder 2022 TN
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Roblin Webb

Chief Executive Officer of Freedom Prep Charter Schools

Roblin Webb, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Freedom Prep Charter Schools, has
dedicated her life’s work to striving for equality for all people. She realizes that the modern day
civil/equal rights struggle lies in providing a quality public education for all children.
As a practicing education lawyer for a city school district, she began her work in pursuit of
educational equality and opportunity. Through her legal work she became determined to find a
way to make a deeper impact and see real progress towards her vision for the children of
Memphis. Her passion for making more immediate change took her to a Deputy Director post
with New Leaders for New Schools. At New Leaders, she recruited educators to become school
leaders and created community partnerships. She believes that education is our modern day
civil rights struggle and to that end, Roblin’s goal is to measurably and dramatically close the
achievement gap in Memphis between black and white and rich and poor. Currently, in the city
of Memphis, we have an economic gap that is ultimately tied to the achievement gap in
communities. There continues to exist a clear and compelling need for schools like Freedom
Prep in Memphis.
Ms. Webb founded Freedom Prep in the Fall of 2009 with a class of approximately 100 6th
graders. Freedom Prep has now grown to five schools, elementary, middle, and high, serving
over 2,300 students in Southwest Memphis. From 2011-2019, Freedom Prep Charter Schools
produced some of the highest academic growth scores in the State of Tennessee. In addition to
our schools and in an effort to spread the best practices of Freedom Prep, Ms. Webb developed
and launched the Freedom Fellows Institute, a charter school incubator for high potential
charter school leaders of color. Ms. Webb graduated from Rhodes College with a bachelor’s in
Urban Studies and holds a Law degree and Masters in Politics and Public Affairs from Rutgers
University.

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