NAME
Anna Treesara
ROLE
Customer Experience Manager
BIO
Anna Treesara was born and raised in Chicago, IL, where she currently lives with her husband and sassy Shiba Inu. Anna has always worked in education, starting as a high school English teacher teaching abroad in Thailand and then in Chicago.
After teaching for four years, she wanted to explore how to positively impact education beyond the classroom walls. This led her to work in the nonprofit space focusing on workforce/youth development and then in education technology helping train teachers, schools, and districts in implementing edtech.
On the side, Anna also runs her own tutoring company and career coaches teachers to help them transition out of the classroom. In her free time, Anna loves to work out, try new restaurants, and manage her book club Brunchin’ Bookworms.
WHY I GRAVITATE TOWARD THIS WORK…
I gravitate toward this work because I believe I was always meant to be in education. As a child of immigrants, the options presented to me were teacher, doctor, and lawyer. My mom would tell me stories about how I’d come home from 1st grade and teach her all about long and short vowels and help them improve their English pronunciation. Fast forward to when I was in the classroom teaching, I constantly felt like there was more that I could be doing. I worked hard to be innovative and incorporate all the edtech tools possible to see what solutions would work best for my students. However, I ultimately realized that I needed to leave the classroom to embark on a new journey within the world of education.
When the opportunity arose to work as a Customer Experience Manager at Leanlab Education, I couldn’t believe what a perfect evolution this was for my career. Having worked at an edtech company for three years prior (much of which was during the pandemic), I recognized how essential it was to gather key insights, data, and research from the very people that these edtech products are impacting: educators and students. I’m incredibly grateful to be able to work with dozens of edtech companies, helping them discover how to improve their products and solve educational challenges.
FUN FACT
My last name actually used to be 17 letters long (Treesaranuwattana), but when my parents officially became citizens, they had the option to shorten their last name. They shortened it to Treesara, and I was so happy because it was particularly challenging for me to learn how to spell my name as a kid, and scantron tests were not a lot of fun!