Oversee philanthropic initiatives, including employee engagement and community impact, charitable matching, and corporate contributions, as Ares' leader for transformative giving and involvement. Direct Ares Charitable Foundation, with mission to accelerate equality of economic opportunity through support of nonprofit organizations whose programming provides Career Preparation & Reskilling, encourages Entrepreneurship, and deepens individuals’ understanding of Personal Finance. Amplify Ares' ESG and DEI goals through strategic design, scale up, and assessment of initiatives that help promulgate firm’s core values among internal and external stakeholders.• Signature Ares Foundation initiatives include $25 million grant for Climate-Resilient Employees for a Sustainable Tomorrow ("CREST") , which helps prepare people for climate-resilient jobs through disruption of occupational segregation, and $30 million grant for AltFinance, which helps prepare Historically Black College and University students for careers in alternative investment management.• Employee-directed Ares Foundation initiatives help, for example, better enable low-income women to transition out of poverty, examine barriers to young people’s successful workforce entry, promote disability workforce inclusion strategies and encourage intergenerational entrepreneurship.

Advanced PMI and PMI Educational Foundation (PMIEF) as thought leaders in strategic philanthropy as architect and overseer of multimillion-dollar partnerships and grants portfolio that reached over 1 million individuals in more than 60 countries on six continents through initiatives that effected nonprofit capacity building, systemic educational reform, and workforce readiness. • Identified, cultivated relationships with, and invested in high-quality organizations to ensure high-impact alliances that achieved desired outputs, outcomes, and impacts pursuant to strategic goals within stated timeframes and budgets.• Updated, designed, and delivered PMIEF products and services that enabled foundation partners to connect with one other through platforms and fora that promoted common sectoral interests, strengthened project management knowledge and application, and encouraged reimagined approaches for increased nonprofit operating efficiencies and programmatic impact.

Designed and executed formative and summative evaluations of multimillion-dollar public health initiatives funded by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey, Northwest Health Foundation, and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to mitigate health disparities for uninsured, underinsured, and racially/ethnically marginalized populations. Compiled evaluation findings to enable in-depth understanding of implementation, usage, perception, and impact of funded initiatives to assess return on social good investments.

Specialized in venture philanthropy at Goldman Sachs Foundation through annual investmentstotaling $19 million, with goals of initiative sustainability, scale-up, and replication as well as tacticalinvolvement of firm professionals for high-engagement giving. • Directed signature Developing High-Potential Youth portfolio for institutions including Harvard University, London School of Economics and Political Science, and University of Witwatersrand to support educational attainment of academically talented, financially less advantaged students.• Directed Advancing Academic Achievement portfolio for institutions including American Museum of Natural History, Boys & Girls Clubs of America, and Sullivan & Cromwell to broker school – community partnerships that spurred student success in urban and under-resourced settings.

Drove cross-cutting integration of work with various lines of business to create aligned approach for giving and involvement at MetLife Foundation, establishing new funding priorities in grantmaking like educational access and opportunity as well as supervising research activities for The MetLife Survey of the American Teacher, an annual publication that reports perspectives of administrators, teachers, parents, and students across U.S. on topics in education. Focused on retirement populations, including collaboration with the International Longevity Center-USA to create educational pathways for geriatric home caregivers and Civic Ventures/Encore.org to help retirees successfully transition to second act careers. Directed MetLife's corporate social responsibility investments on behalf of education and business initiatives,

Evaluated initiatives funded by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, College Board, Institute for Student Achievement, New York City Department of Education, and W.K. Kellogg Foundation to examine effects of small school reform on underserved and underperforming students, early college awareness among first-generation college students, and new teacher retention for National Center for Restructuring Education, Schools & Teaching, a research organization that encourages understanding of school reform through knowledge gathering, analysis, and dissemination to create equitable teaching and learning opportunities. Grant-funded position.

Examined mentoring initiative sponsored by Goldman Sachs Foundation, Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship, and The John Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth for one-year study that established Goldman Sachs Foundation’s signature initiative, Developing High-Potential Youth. Grant-funded position.