I am a nonprofit leader and national workforce development expert with 20 yrs of experience designing and managing workforce, education, college, and social service programs for at-risk populations. I have an extensive background in program planning, development, fundraising, fiscal management, and evaluation From 2007-2020, I led The Door’s career and education service department, helping to shape nationally recognized education and career services for both in-school and out-of-school youth, including This Way Ahead, a unique retail sector training and internship program with The Gap, Inc., and Learn and Earn to Achieve Potential (LEAP), an Annie E. Casey Foundation and Social Innovation Fund initiative to improve college matriculation and persistence outcomes for homeless and system-involved youth. During my tenure, I grew programming from a $2.5 million budget with 25 staff to over a $10 million budget with 90 staff and expanded services into the Bronx and Brooklyn. I successfully secured funding from government agencies and foundations including the NYC Department of Youth and Community Development, NYS Department of Labor, US Department of Education, the Robin Hood Foundation, Pinkerton Foundation, Tiger Foundation, Conrad Hilton Foundation, and the Annie E Casey Foundation. I developed employment and training partnerships with companies such as Gap, Inc. Bloomberg LLP, Warby Parker, CVS Health, Whole Foods, Roundabout Theatre, and Woodlawn Conservancy.Prior to The Door, I was the Deputy Director of Client Services at Northern Manhattan Improvement Corporation, where I developed nationally recognized workforce, entrepreneurial, employment support, immigration, and early childhood education programs. This included one of the first US Department of Labor-funded welfare to work initiatives, a licensed family daycare network, and one of the largest IRS-sponsored free tax preparation clinics in the United States. At the New York Academy of Medicine, I coordinated two research initiatives with Columbia University School of Social Work and the Hartford Foundation to improve the training of graduate social work students in health care and geriatrics, and at the Banana Kelly Community Improvement Association I helped launch the Banana Kelly High School, a New Visions for Public Schools community-based school in the South Bronx and the HANDS project, a demonstrative HIV/AIDS independent living skills program for formerly homeless individuals living with AIDS. In 2008, I was a recipient of the second annual Emerging Social Work Leaders Award from NASW-NYC.