Ijeoma Okatie is a 2025-2026 Houston Policy Fellow and 7th grade Science teacher at YES Prep West Secondary School in Houston. She equips special education, emergent bilingual, and general education students with scientific skills using inquiry based learning. Ijeoma is a District Science 7 course facilitator. She has been honored with awards based on student achievement (2023-2024 and 2024-2025). Ijeoma began her teaching career in Nigeria in 2012 and has taught various grade levels in K-12, as well as pre-university students. Ijeoma earned her BScEd and MScEd in biology education from Delta State University and University of Benin, both in Nigeria.
