About our Founder: Dr. Naomi Johnson Booker has a stellar reputation for transforming failing schools into successful learning institutions. She is a public education innovator: through GLA’s leadership and global studies program, Dr. Booker incorporated learning outside the classroom into the school’s curriculum through U.S. and overseas excursions. She has been credited for changing the mindset of her West Philadelphia scholars as she closes America’s Exposure Gap, which in turn leads to closing the Achievement Gap., Most of her scholars live beneath the Federal Poverty Level, showing them they can become future leaders of the world.