Responsible for helping to define and implement a strategy to maximize Teach For America’s impact at scale: evolving the national organization to support learning and innovation across the organization’s 52 regions, transforming the funding model from one focused on fueling growth to one that sustains the enduring institution Teach For America has grown into, and ensuring the organization has the strategy and capacity needed to enlist the next generation of leaders in the effort to transform public education. Manage senior teams responsible for recruitment and selection, teacher training and support, alumni engagement and leadership support, marketing and communications, federal and state government relations, fundraising, and organizational strategy and learning.

Lead team responsible for building private, public, federal, and community partnerships to maximize collective impact of organization in pursuit of mission.Develop strategy and manage execution of plan to increase teaching corps size from 7,300 to 10,000 in 50 of the highest need communities in the nation and to raise $350 million annually from a highly diversified funding base.Serve on the Leadership Team responsible for broader organizational strategy, planning, and culture; resource allocation; and, talent development. Work with the President and Chief Executive Officer on national growth, development, and public relations initiatives, and help to coach and support regional executive directors on local and state growth strategy and development.

Developed and led the implementation of a more effective, efficient, and transparent approach to national growth strategy that links corps member allocation with funding, student need, and applicant preference, resulting in a 12% increase in national corps size and a 14% increase in the percent of the operating budget fully supported locally.Revised approach to new site development and created a prioritization framework to ensure organizational energy is allocated toward opening the most attractive potential new sites, and managed the new site development team toward launching 10 prioritized sites in two years (2x previous rate) and building readiness of future sites.Managed the design and development of new models, processes, and tools to foster high impact growth in regions, including placement strategy and execution, and district and placement partner cultivation.

Negotiated contracts with school boards and superintendents to grow from 140 corps members in five districts to 425 corps members serving over 35,000 students in eight districts and several charter management organizations. Ensured the engagement and effectiveness of the 1,000 strong alumni network as a force for change, including increasing the number of alumni serving as school leaders from 25 to 50.Recruited and retained high caliber, diverse management team and improved work satisfaction of regional team of 40 to 77% strongly agree/agree (compared to 72% nationally), and reconstituted regional advisory board of directors and recruited core group of influential members charged with growing membership to meet organizational needs at scale.Increased funding from $2.2 million to over $8 million, making the region one of a handful of Teach For America sites fully supported locally. Appointed by Chief Executive Officer to the strategy committee of seven senior staff members who were charged with guiding the development of the organizational priorities for the next five-year strategic plan.

Managed 68 teachers to set and accomplish ambitious goals for students' academic achievement and stewarded their engagement as Teach For America corps members, resulting in 23% higher average satisfaction than other groups of corps members.Conducted regular cycles of data-driven collaborative problem solving in order to accelerate teacher development and maximize teacher effectiveness in the classroom.Cultivated and managed principal and university partnership relationships.

Served as a member of a national teaching corps of top college graduates who commit to teach for two years in low income urban and rural public schools and who go on to be come life-long advocates for educational equity. Led nearly 400 eighth grade students to academic success by establishing rigorous Regents program through which students passed the end of year exam at twice the rate of high school students in the same district; and, served on school leadership team.