Our Team
Education
B.S. in Latin American Studies; UNC Chapel Hill
Elevator Pitch
Pedro Carreño is a Partner of School Design at Transcend. He has spent the past 15 years dedicated to excellence and equity in learning environments. In this role at Transcend, he champions a community-based, liberatory design process with his partner schools, reimagining schooling to lead to more extraordinary and equitable learning experiences for all students. Pedro is also an adjunct instructor with Alder Graduate School of Education and serves as a board member with Voices College-Bound Language Academies & South African Education Project. Pedro fell in love with education during his time as a TFA corps member in Brooklyn, New York where he started teaching second grade at Excellence Boys Charter School. Pedro is a proud Tar Heel with his BA in Latin American Studies and a minor in Social Entrepreneurship from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as well as a Master’s from the Relay Graduate School of Education. In his free time, you can find Pedro spending time with family, throwing down in the kitchen, dancing at a show, playing pickleball or frisbee, or traveling the globe.