Deanna Sheaffer

Deanna Sheaffer has more than 25 years of non-profit advancement/development experience, primarily in education.  Deanna has worked with the Advancement Team at KIPP Houston and was the Director of Alumni Support for Teach For America’s Houston office. She received her MBA from the Jones Business School at Rice University and in 1999, Deanna joined Rice University as the Director of Alumni Engagement and Finance. She originally moved to Houston as a 1991 Teach For America corps member.

She is married to a native Houstonian and is the mother of four sons.