Our Roots
Urban Synergy Education Hub is rooted in the lived experiences, scholarship, and leadership of Black educators. In a profession where Black teachers remain significantly underrepresented, this work emerges from Black feminist traditions, practitioner wisdom, and community-based ways of knowing.
While our roots are specific, our impact is expansive.
Our Philosophy
Urban Synergy is built on the belief that people do their best work when they are seen, grounded, and connected to their own voice.
Rather than treating leadership as a title or destination, we approach it as a relational and contextual practice—shaped by history, power, culture, and lived experience. We center reflection over urgency, understanding over performance, and humanity over compliance.
Urban schools and organizations are not broken spaces. They are sites of brilliance, creativity, and possibility. Urban Synergy exists to help people recognize that truth—in themselves and in the systems they inhabit.
Values & Commitments
Urban Synergy is committed to:
- Voice over silence
- Strengths over deficit narratives
- Context over convenience
- Reflection over reaction
- Choice over compliance
This work is thoughtful, spacious, and intentional—designed to support real people navigating real systems.
Our Founder:
Dr. G. Funmilayo
Tyson-Devoe
Dr. G. Funmilayo Tyson-Devoe is a practitioner–scholar, Gallup-trained strengths coach, and equity-centered consultant with over twenty years of experience across public education, district leadership, youth and family education, and organizational development.
Her work is informed by Black Feminist Thought, Critical Race Theory, narrative and life-history inquiry, and emerging scholarship in educational followership. Across every role, her guiding question has remained consistent:
Whose voice is centered—and whose labor is being carried without recognition?
Urban Synergy is the professional home for this inquiry.
Dr. Tyson-Devoe’s scholarship explores:
- Black women educators’ working conditions
- leadership and followership in education systems
- workplace trauma and teacher well-being
- narrative inquiry and qualitative methods
- equity, power, and organizational culture
Her work bridges academic rigor and practitioner relevance.
