Keri Rodrigues is Matthew, Miles and David’s mom and the visionary founder and president of the National Parents Union (NPU) – a groundbreaking organization that unites parents from diverse backgrounds to advocate for the rights, economic and educational needs of America’s children. Under her leadership, NPU has become a formidable force, driving policy reforms and fostering parental empowerment across the nation to dismantle economic and educational barriers that keep America’s children from achieving economic mobility and prosperity.

Rodrigues has served on the US Department of Education’s National Parent and Family Engagement Council, the Children’s Equity Project Family Advisory Committee at Arizona State University and the Massachusetts Democratic State Committee and the Ethnic Council of the Democratic National Committee. Her work, impact and perspective has been featured in the New York Times, NBC Nightly News, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, Fox News, the Washington Post, POLITICO and the Boston Globe and has been a guest lecturer at Stanford, UCLA, UC Berkeley, Columbia University, Harvard, MIT and Georgetown Law.

In 2022, the National Parents Union was honored as the National Advocate of the Year by UnidosUS and the ERN Change Agent of the Year. In 2024 NPU was honored with the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) Caregiver Award for Outstanding Leadership in Social and Emotional Learning. Keri serves on the Board of Educators for Excellence and as a Lector at Saint Charles Parish in Woburn, Massachusetts.

Rodrigues briefed journalists in June 2025: How to Cover Education Department Cuts in Local School Districts.