For the past 30+ years, I have worked to improve employment and education outcomes for low-income adults and youth. My experience includes work at the state and the local level in vocational education, school-to-work, and the public workforce development system; and national level policy and program work for various foundation initiatives. I am now seeking consulting/contract work in those fields.Between 2004 and 2009, I helped design and then managed the multi-year, multi-state Breaking Through Initiative, which worked with 28 community colleges to improve access for adults with low reading and math scores. Semi-retired since then, I have completed a number of consulting assignments: adapting community colleges to accommodate low-skill adults; researching career pathways in the health care professions, and innovations in vocational/technical education. From June, 2015 to October 2018, I was a member of a 3rd party evaluation team for a TAACCCT grant to Massachusetts's community colleges. Specialties: Project management: Grant writing, budgeting, grant management, monitoring performance and expenditures, technical assistance, grant reporting, evaluation. Research & writing: Research—qualitative & quantitative, analysis—reports, presentations, writing—reports, proposals.