Jaleela Rassi

Headmistress Rassi
Protecting the Haight's wilder from banality while at the same time protecting ordinary teenagers from the crueler impulses of the Haight's wilder is a most arduous challenge.Jaleela Rassi, more properly known among the kithain as Dame Taara of Firozkoh, took up that mantle in 2012. Born in San Jose California, Taara underwent her Crysallis at the age of 10. She was fortunate to have a human mother who was herself Eshu kinain and recognized from stories what her daughter was. With sympathetic and encouraging parents, Taara was able to participate fully in both mundane and faerie society. She would travel during the summers with first her mentor then her motely but maintain good grades and attendance at school. Upon graduating high school, she took a year to travel throughout Concordia, visiting freeholds in every kingdom. When she returned, she applied and was accepted into Berkley, where she did both her undergraduate and graduate work.

Taara & House Fiona
The price to attend Berkley university was an oath of fealty to Duchess Aoibhell at Caer Llanwed. Taara joined Aoibhell's court and the two developed a warm relationship over the next six years. The Duchess knighted Taara as a sign of her personal trust and respect for the Eshu's service. Soon after, Aoibhell arranged for Taara to obtain the post at the Urban School despite her comparitively young age and lack of hands-on experience as an educational administrator; the ink was barely dry on Jaleela's Master's degree when she took charge of the Urban School.

As one of the few beleiged (and a titled one at that) to live and work in the Haight, Dame Taara is the subject of a lot of suspicion and criticism among the neighborhood's more radical changelings. She holds a great deal of authority, probably equal to Sir Garland, as both a member of the neighborhood council and the Haight's representative to House Fiona.

Headmistress Rassi
As the head of the Urban School, Jaleela has a reputation of being extremely patient, diplomatic, and discerning. She takes upholding the Escheat within the confines of the school, especially the Right To Ignorance very seriously. Her brand of discipline is generally of the "let the punishment fit the crime" variety. She has no husband, no pets, no children, and her dalliances with romance are far and few between but she seems to be quite content to be so very busy with the school and local kithain affairs. She smiles a great deal and speaks in a gentle, steady tone most of the time.