Assist in the development of organizational early childhood policy agenda. Write nonpartisan policy briefs, technical reports, using data and research to craft compelling narratives around policy issues using an outcomes-based early childhood frame.Facilitate and inform research-based technical assistance projects for non-profit, governmental, collective impact, and philanthropic organizations. Project management experience includes strategic, operational, and business plan development, drafting sustainable funding model options for scale, conducting sector landscape surveys, process and program evaluations.Federal, state, and private philanthropic competitive grant-writing; business and fund development.

Data and research compilation and analysis for various Rhode Island Kids Count work and publications, including issue briefs, legislative testimony, and annual Fact Book.

Courses include, but not limited to: Human Development and Urban Education, Educational Governance Structures, Economics of Education, Quantitative Research Methods and Data Analysis, Policy analysis and Program Evaluation for Education, Strategic Thinking, Planning, and Acting for Non-Profit Organizations

Created original long-term, unit, and daily lesson plans and corresponding benchmark and weekly formative and summative assessments, with a heavy focus on inquiry-based learning, Common Core reading comprehension, and written analysis. In the first year of teaching, doubled number of proficient students for state standardized test from 15% to 32% proficient. Evaluated as a Level 5 teacher.

Earned Elementary and Middle School Teaching Certification