Chantelle Carter is the Ohio Ombudsman for Equitable Services and an Education Program Specialist at the Ohio Department of Education. She has been in the ombudsman role for over a year and has been in the Office of Federal Programs providing support to private schools and districts for over five years. Prior to her work at with the Ohio Department of Education, she was a decorated classroom teacher and a director of educational operations at a nonprofit learning center. Mrs. Carter earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Elementary Education from Urbana University and her Master of Science degree in Educational Administration from the University of Dayton.