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• Provide policy technical assistance to partners to create the conditions for family child care to thrive• Facilitate relationships with stakeholders, advocates, and educators to elevate organizational values • Develop policy advising materials and tools to deepen the impact of policy technical assistance• Co-facilitate the National Center on Early Childhood Quality Assurance's family child care collaborative• Represent All Our Kin in national coalitions to connect FCC to broader early childhood advocacy efforts• Support policy writing projects through the development of external-facing briefs on FCC policy issues

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Supported implementation of Great Starts, an enrollment platform for ECE programs in Boston• Assisted with provider data entry, cross-agency collaborative planning, and project management• Conducted process interviews with implementation staff for fellowship capstone

Waltham, Ma

• Supported and managed education research projects to advance organizational mission.• Collected data, conducted data analyses, prepared reports, and executed project deliverables. • Assisted with proposal development, project management, and client communications.• Engaged with stakeholders including local education agencies, federal and state departments.

• Synthesized and analyzed relevant literature on inequality in education and discussed deficit discourse in education using Critical Race Theory, Critical Bifocality, and Critical Discourse Analysis • Engaged in scholarship to analyze the test-based accountability movement in public schools and how a strict focus on the "achievement gap" has overlooked structural barriers in education • Produced a 130-page Honors Thesis that received the Human Development Undergraduate Research Award and was nominated for the College's Most Outstanding Honors Thesis• Presented findings at the Engaged Scholarship and Social Justice Undergraduate Research Conference at Harvard University and the Holleran Center for Community Action and Public Policy Annual Conference at Connecticut College

Connecticut College

• Led career development workshops to peers to employ knowledge of career resources• Advised students individually on writing resumes, cover letters, interviewing, and job-research• Conducted intake appointments to orient first-year students to the college internship program

New London, Connecticut

• Assisted students in Research Methods in Psychology to further their understanding • Communicated individually with students to assess their needs and design individualized plans

Connecticut College

• Accepted into the interdisciplinary center alongside 25 peers after extensive application • Pursue interest area of early childhood education policy to culminate in a senior honors thesis• Gain skills for enacting social change by learning about organizational structures and grant writing• Selected for the Helene Kestenman Handelman '54 Endowed Internship for the Summer of 2018

• Drafted advocacy communications to state elected officials to advance organization’s mission • Researched full-day kindergarten tuition rates in Massachusetts to inform advocacy campaign• Assisted in running congressional candidate forum on children’s issues to engage voters • Attended Massachusetts State House briefing on the federal Preschool Expansion Grants

Groton, Connecticut

• Attend early childhood center twice weekly to participate in young preschool classroom• Shadow site manager in daily operations to learn about agency’s umbrella services to families

Boston, Massachusetts

• Wrote biweekly reviews on current education policy issues to inform CEO and leadership team• Developed a policy proposal on early educator pay parity in MA to guide Jumpstart policy actions• Compiled research on early education organizations and explored potential partnership opportunities• Used Salesforce database to input government interactions to track relationships at federal/state level

• Recorded detailed and up to date notes for specific classes, submit to Student Accessibility Services to be used by students at the college with learning disabilities.

New London, Connecticut

• Volunteer weekly at the lab preschool on campus as a service learning requirement • Build relationships with the children and integrate current coursework into experiences.

Reading, Massachusetts

• Assistant to the pediatric and GYN offices in filing and database work.

Master Of Education - Med, Education Policy And Analysis

Activities and Societies: Saul Zaentz Early Education Fellow, Early Childhood Concentration

Bachelor’S Degree, Human Development, Psychology

Activities and Societies: Phi Beta Kappa, Winthrop Scholar, Psi Chi National Psychology Honors Society, Holleran Center for Community.

Bachelor'S Degree, Child Development

Study abroad program for Fall 2017 semester in Copenhagen, Denmark. Enrolled in core course "Child Development in Scandinavia,".

High School