Nye Trusty
Founder/CEO of The TitheWell
For over a decade, Nye Trusty’s work as a teacher, leadership development coach, and facilitators has helped shape student, teacher, and school outcomes in communities across Maryland, D.C., Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, El Salvador, Mexico, and Brazil.
As a certified Yoga Instructor (CYT-200) and Holistic Life Coach, Nye Trusty blends classroom experience, liberatory consciousness, and embodied wellness to help schools retain their best educators and sustain student achievement.
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April 28, 2026
"All Skinfolk Ain't Kinfolk" with Nye Trusty
Nye Trusty brings a candid, layered, and deeply necessary conversation about identity, belonging, and why representation without inclusion is just window dressing. She's worn many names and even more hats: teacher, coach, doctoral student, and now nonprofit founder. In this episode, she gets raw about what it really means to show up fully in spaces that weren't built for you, including what happened when Black leadership asked her to strip her classroom of its Blackness. From growing up in Far Rockaway, Queens, to teaching seventh graders in Baltimore and Louisiana, Nye's journey through education is one of resilience, demoralization, and ultimately, radical reinvention. She opens up about the moment she knew it was time to leave the classroom, not because she stopped loving her students, but because the system had worn her down to the point where she had nothing left to fight with. And she's honest about something the education world doesn't like to say out loud: sharing a skin ton…
Guest: Nye Trusty