Meet Our Leadership & Early Learning Team
Meet the women bringing together thoughtful leadership, early childhood education, and intentional care to create the Harlem Little Learners experience.
Malea Parker, Founder & Chief Executive Officer | Owner/Operator
Harlem Little Learners began with Malea’s belief that children should not have to leave their own community to experience beautiful, thoughtful early education. Inspired by the care and enrichment she sought for her own daughter, she created a program where warmth and high standards belong in the same room.
An economics student at Stony Brook University with a background in business administration, Malea brings discipline, imagination, and a discerning eye to the life of the program. She shapes its curriculum, guides its culture, and remains deeply connected to the families it serves. For Malea, early childhood is not a waiting room for school. It is a singular season of becoming—and it deserves to be treated with care, intelligence, and joy.
Ivory Parker, Chief Learning & Safety Officer
Ivory Parker understands that children learn best when they feel secure, seen, and free to explore. Her presence at Harlem Little Learners brings calm, attentiveness, and a strong sense of order to the everyday rhythms of childhood.
A graduate of Howard University with classroom experience at Success Academy Charter Schools, Ivory brings both educational discipline and an instinctive attentiveness to young children. She helps shape an environment where safety is not simply a set of rules, but a way of being: knowing where children are, understanding what they need, anticipating what comes next, and creating the consistency that allows confidence to grow.
Her work joins protection with possibility—giving children the steadiness they need to stretch, discover, and become more fully themselves.
Margery Hannah, Chief Strategy Officer
Margery Hannah brings vision to structure. Her work at Harlem Little Learners has helped shape the policies, systems, educational framework, and strategic direction that give the program both discipline and possibility.
A writer and educator by training, Margery holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Stony Brook University and brings experience across education, curriculum development, grant management, and community programming. Her policy work has included federal grants compliance and program governance for federally funded healthcare initiatives, as well as the development of much of Harlem Little Learners’ own policy and administrative framework.
She believes strong institutions are built with the same care as strong stories: every part must have purpose, coherence, and integrity. At Harlem Little Learners, she brings that rigor to the work while keeping sight of what matters most—the children, the families, and the kind of early learning experience they deserve.
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Harlem Little Learners
45 W 139th St
NY, NY 10027
929-814-8161
harlemlittlelearners@gmail.com
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