Meet The SANKOFA Family

ISAAC (Yitzhak) HOWARD

Certified NFHS Mental Performance Coach Isaac (Yitzhak) Howard. Certified Visual Arts Teacher. With over 20 years of playing and coaching experience.

1996 graduate of Plainfield High School in Plainfield New Jersey.
1998 Union County College in Cranford, New Jersey
1999 Garden State Athletic Conference champions at UCC
1999-2000 1st team JUCO Garden State Athletic Conference.
2000-2002 Richard Stockton University in Pomona, New Jersey started for two seasons for Coach Gerry Matthews.

20 years of experience as a player and coach.
2009 to 2013 Head boys coach at James Russell Middle School in Lawrenceville, Virginia.
2013 to 2018, the Girls Varsity Assistant Head Coach at Brunswick High School in Lawrenceville, Virginia.
2019 to 2021 Freshman Boys Basketball Coach at Plainfield High School, Varsity Assistant Coach Plainfield High School
2019-Present MSU Skyliners Boys Travel Basketball Team Head Coach
2022 - Currently the Assistant and Junior Varisity Head Coach at Immaculata High School in Somerville New Jersey.

Tatianna Vilbrun

Lead Teacher of the Career Technology Education (CTE) and Visual & Performing Arts (VPA) Departments

A high school Marketing, Business Law, Entrepreneurship, and career technology teacher, Vilbrun is the Career Technology Education and Visual and Performing Arts Department supervisor. She is also a motivational speaker for teens and women and is in the process of founding Love Yourself Enough (LYE), a consulting company meant to convince others of their own self-worth.

Tatiana Vilbrun specializes in convincing others to love themselves. A Brooklyn native, she moved to New Jersey in her teens. She holds a bachelor's degree in business administration/management and is four months shy of earning a master's degree in educational technology with a concentration in digital teaching and learning.