● Manage the development of a diverse portfolio of state-funded workforce development grants- over $27 million annually focused on training support for environmental justice communities, economic development for minority and women business enterprises, and climate-critical career development programming for youth and young adults.● Guide the design and implementation of technical assistance efforts focused on increasing programmatic outcomes for grantees.● Support expanded organizational impact through programmatic recommendations and partnership development● Contribute to strategic planning, organizational governance, and board engagement as a member of the Executive Team

● Led strategic planning by developing and executing a multi-year plan supporting the expansion of seven regions serving 25 states and improvement across key metrics of impact.● Provided strategic direction for integrating entrepreneurship education into workforce development and career and technical education programming in secondary and post-secondary settings.● Supported expanded organizational thought-leadership by ghost-writing op-eds, congressional testimony, and conference presentations.● Redesigned and directly manage the human resources department, leading to integrating and expanding DEI efforts, instituting a learning and development program, and bringing the full recruiting cycle in-house.

Associate Director of Curriculum Development and Training (April 2016 to February 2018)Senior Program Manager: Curriculum Development and Training (July 2014 to April 2016)Program Manager, Training and Support (Youth Pathways) (January 2013 to July 2014)• Managed a robust portfolio of state-funded grants- over $55 million since taking on the director role. Led the development of a new outcomes-focused approach ensuring that programs track key work readiness and occupational skill gain indicators across all learners.• Guided the redesign of a statewide youth employment program into a career pathway program with hybrid and virtual work and learning solutions focused on equitable access to sustainable careers aligned to regional industry needs. Increased career pathway training by more than tenfold over 18 months by partnering with training providers to deliver a statewide virtual model. • Led the development, sales, and implementation efforts to launch and grow a suite of career readiness and soft-skills training solutions that to date have benefitted more than 100,000 youth and adult learners in a vast array of education and workforce program models. Created and coached staff in a needs assessment process that has led to increased client satisfaction. • Designed and implemented annual professional development strategies to support the learning and development for 200 to 400 workforce development staff among partner organizations. Introduced a holistic model- inclusive of targeted coaching, modeling, communities of practice and training which led to increased partner capacity and 30% greater skill gain among youth participants. • Oversaw a team of ten full-time staff and 20-plus consultants across curriculum development, training, program management, evaluation, instruction, fiscal, marketing and design functions

• Pitched the product, services and company to investors, educators, principals, superintendents, and statewide education officials yielding key inflection points for the company such as selection into Betaspring, a selective start-up accelerator, increased sales, and the first statewide contract • Spearheaded the user interface, functionality, and branding redesign of LessonWriter Version 2.0 while implementing an agile project management approach to ensure efficiency and collaboration across staff and consultants• Designed and led professional development trainings on effective strategies for ESL and literacy instruction, lesson differentiation, data collection and blended learning with LessonWriter Tools• Designed key product features and standards based curriculum for content-sites • Led organizational strategic planning and contributed to staff development, in-house financial monitoring, and promotional, business, and instructional writing,

• Developed a suite of academic course offerings to expand company services and coordinated the implementation of a blended learning component into preparation courses, which resulted increased student outcomes and significant cost-savings• Led full time staff of four and a part-time/consultant-based team of 25 educators and counselors. Instituted a training and coaching model to support a new layer or junior instructors which increased client satisfaction and provided an in-house employee pipeline for critical positions • Supported strong relationships with local school districts • Led both large-group workshops for parents and students on college admissions and educational development and small family consultations regarding academic and college entrance support plans• Taught math, writing and test preparation courses in addition to working with students individually

• Taught intermediate and advanced level ESL course to a diverse adult population• Adapted and designed materials to support a theme-based, differentiated curriculum

• Taught Mathematics, Science, Advisory, Journalism, Health, and Reading courses to a variety of populations such as general education, CTT (special education/ gen. ed. mix), Special Education Inclusion (12:1), and honors classes• Designed and implemented a high-school level Living Environment Regents Program for 6th graders• Supported fellow teachers as an Advisory coordinator, and wrote parts of the advisory curriculum• Served on School Leadership Teams and School Inquiry Teams, mentored an Aspiring Teacher Candidate

• Facilitated workshops on HIV/AIDS for students of all ages in both public and private school settings• Served as a committee co-chair for the Public Schools Task Force on HIV/AIDS, organized advocacy projects, media efforts, and events with other CBOs• Participated in organizational strategic planning, fundraising and development projects, and staff development for part-time staff.

• Communicated directly with educators and students about program-related questions • Completed research reports tracking the classroom implementation of the test preparation software

• Coordinated Peer Review Process for incoming articles and assisted with public relations and online and library research• Implemented network system, created databases, and addressed web issues• Worked on projects such as the distribution of 1998 Supplement on Emergency Contraception and the creation of JAMWA’s Women’s Health Link Library

• Researched sex-education websites• Created database of information on web-related resources for initiative to encourage parents to be better sex-educators for their children

• Contributed to creating and managing databases concerning subjects such as constituent files, property statistics, and press records

• Researched literature pertinent to grant proposal and helped write the grant• Assisted in designing a training manual for project SAFE, an HIV prevention program for teens