Tela Hansom Pitt has been with APTS since 2002 and currently serves as APTS’ senior executive assistant to the president. Hansom-Pitt is responsible for managing the president’s and executive vice president and chief operating officer’s calendars and commitments. Among her activities on behalf of the Association, she is also responsible for managing internal projects and meetings and serves as floor manager during APTS’ Capitol Hill Day.

 

Tela has also served on Capitol Hill for 8 years on the staff of Senator Charles S. Robb (D-Va.) where her responsibilities ranged from giving personally guided tours of the Capitol to researching and responding to constituent inquiries regarding the budget, commerce, crime, the environment, gun control and small business administration.

 

Her passion for early childhood and adult literacy then lead her to the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) where she worked in the Ready To Learn (RTL) and PBS LiteracyLink® departments assisting public television stations in the development and implementation of plans to utilize adult literacy services into their existing early childhood education workshops. At PBS she also managed and represented RTL and LiteracyLink at several local and national conferences and conducted train-the-trainer workshops on adult literacy.

 

Tela has a bachelor’s degree in Business from Shenandoah University in Winchester, Va., and has taken graduate courses at Howard University in Washington, D.C.