Karla Ver Bryck Block

Karla Ver Bryck Block has worked with the Department of Education’s Office of Postsecondary Education, where she worked on the Title VI and Fulbright-Hays international grant programs and was responsible for evaluation, budget, dissemination, and outreach and later worked as the director of the Virginia Initiative for Science Teaching and Achievement at George Mason University. She also was a special assistant to the assistant director of the Office of State, Local, and Tribal Coordination in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Prior to serving in these positions she taught high school in rural South Africa. Ver Bryck Block earned a master’s degree in public administration from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University and a bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. She is an alumna of the Presidential Management Intern Program and the federal Executive Potential Program.