How I Got Here: This Service Member and Entrepreneur Centers Communication in Everything She Does

Neferteri Strickland’s military roots are so deep that she had a pilot’s license before getting her driver’s license in high school.

Strickland is a King of Prussia-based part-time service member, specifically a captain in the Pennsylvania Army National Guard. Both of her parents were service members, too, and she spent most of her childhood on military bases. She joined the military magnet program Junior ROTC as a teenager, and when she was 17, she joined the National Guard.

But service member isn’t the only hat that Strickland wears: She is also the founder of education consulting company Teachers &. She started the company in 2020 when she, a parent, realized that it’s not enough to just advocate for your own child if you want to see change — she wanted to advocate for other children in the education system.

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