Reyna is the Senior Development Manager at DonorsChoose.org, the online charity that connects individual “citizen philanthropists” with classrooms in need. At DonorsChoose.org, teachers post requests for materials and experiences that their students need to thrive, and citizens can then give to the project request that most inspires them. Every donor then gets photographs and thank-you letters from the classroom that he or she chose to help.

Reyna recently graduated with her M.F.A. from New York University’s Creative Writing Program in Fiction. She lives in Astoria, Queen with her husband Jason, a high school English teacher.