Jeanne Casteen is a lifelong educator, mother, grandmother, and passionate proponent for the common good. She has a Master’s in Secondary Education from ASU and wishes that bureaucrats and Christian nationalists would stop trying to destroy public education in Arizona. In 2011, Jeanne completed the Emerge Arizona program and, in 2012, became a school board member for the Creighton School District, where she served through 2020. In 2020, Ms. Casteen ran for Maricopa County School Superintendent and came within 12,000 votes of winning.
She has been awarded the Arizona School Public Relations Association Award for Excellence in Advocacy and Political Contributions to Education, as well as the Arizona School Board Association’s All-Arizona School Board Member Award. She joined Secular AZ in 2021 as its Executive Director.