Serve on 4-member Senior Leadership Team, collaboratively advancing the organization’s mission, strategic goals, policy solutions, and impact. Lead consulting/technical assistance practice, and manage research, data, and policy team of 4.• Served as lead researcher and policy expert on innovative solution, wrote legislation, and worked with stakeholders to move it forward; achieved in 2023 largest education funding increase in a decade (second largest in state history), reducing racial funding gap between diverse districts and non-diverse districts by 23%.• Enhanced organization’s consulting practice, leading virtually all engagements with nonprofit and school district clients, securing ~$150K in annual revenue, and facilitating more equitable education solutions nationwide.• Led major consulting engagements with two large urban school districts, redesigning school allocation model in line with districts’ strategic plans and fiscal picture.• Deepened partnership with national nonprofit, furthering their work by providing research and data analysis to convey impact of special education service delivery on charter school sector growth.• Partnered with FutureEd (leading think tank) and ConnCAN (education advocacy group) to analyze and report on district-level spending of Covid-19 federal stimulus funding, shedding light on investments and impacts.• Implemented and managed Salesforce and Google Cloud Platform to streamline information sharing and access, enabling leaders and staff across the organization to focus on their outreach and advocacy work.

Expanded and managed data and policy team (3 direct reports) to meet organizational mission and needs, producing policy research, data analyses, and legislation to revamp CT’s education funding system.• Contributed directly to implementation of a new state education funding formula in 2017 • Spearheaded data visualization strategy and products that yielded 175,000+ views.• Oversaw analysis of 18 state budget proposals, providing prompt insights; designed and created internal data systems and automation to ensure efficiency, accuracy, and responsiveness.• Established new revenue-generating consulting practice, enabling organization to provide technical assistance and helping clients further their own missions.

Co-launched organization, built relationships with important stakeholders, and helped establish the organization as a respected entity in the field of education finance.• Managed financial modeling of school finance reform proposals to quantify aggregate and individual district impacts on students, schools, and communities.• Created tools and data visualizations to convey deficiencies and inequities in CT’s school funding system.• Developed automated dashboards to track and measure impact of community engagement and outreach.• Created and managed Data Analyst intern program (4 per year).

Collaborated with three Connecticut public school districts to help them better understand how they are using people, time and money, and to identify opportunities to allocate resources to better align with district strategy and improve student learning outcomes.Performed various in-depth analyses of Connecticut public school districts’ revenue and expenditures using publicly available data.

Managed $10 M in PA DCED grant applications for Pittsburgh economic development projects.Coordinated revision of URA Tax Increment Financing [TIF] Guidelines.Designed Bus Pass Program for newly employed residents to decrease program recidivism.

Coordinated Lawrenceville Senior AdvantAGE program to strengthen connection between 20 neighborhood businesses and the local senior citizen population Planned and Assisted in Upper, Central, and Lower Lawrenceville community planning and development processes

Planned and initiated data mapping visualization of PCA funded Arts in Education Residencies, PCA partner organization activities and Poetry Out Loud participants throughout PennsylvaniaResearched, designed, and implemented strategies to leverage existing data collection efforts towards future mapping visualization projects.Provided general support for PA Governor’s Awards for the Arts to executive staff with event organization and details leading up to the annual fall event

Tutored students in the following areas: Operations and Information Systems, Corporation Finance, Management.Tutored 5 students for 1 hour each per week throughout semester.

Explained process for accommodated testing and Accommodated Testing form.Prepared facility for testing appointments.Maintained confidentiality of departmental affairs including students with disabilities.

Conducted internal research with sales force regarding the targeting of marketing material.Proposed new marketing collateral based on sales force research.Assisted in creation of marketing collateral consistent with current internal research.