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Boston, Ma

We activate the creative potential of young people, especially underrepresented young people - first generation college students, students from low-income backgrounds and students of color - with the agency, social capital, and skills to build their own pathways to economic mobility and success in Boston’s innovation economy. We architect opportunity pathways for high school students by collaborating with high schools, colleges, and companies to put young people on a debt-free track to earn a credential and get a great job in the innovation economy.

San Francisco Bay Area

Designed and led the organization’s new change initiative to empower teachers as innovators and support the implementation of teacher-generated ideas to understand the most promising innovative practices for promoting student learning in four public schools districts - Gwinnett County Public Schools, Vista Unified School District, New York City Department of Education and the community of Oakland.

Boston, Ma

A marketplace for substitute teachers. ​Parachute recruits and trains local community members to share their talents and expertise with schools. Parachuters teach robotics, scratch coding, theatre, creative writing, sound engineering, yoga, nature journaling, farm to table cooking, spoken word poetry and more!

Cambridge Ma

Incubated Parachute Teachers at the Harvard Innovation Lab. One of ten finalists for the prestigious President's Innovation Challenge at Harvard, SXSWedu finalist, winner of the Harvard i3 Innovation Challenge, and awarded an Education Entrepreneurship Fellowship from the Harvard Graduate School of Education to design more innovative and flexible human capital models for public school districts.

Somerville, Ma

"Unless our children begin to learn together, then there is little hope that our people will ever learn to live together." - Justice Thurgood Marshall. Facilitated opportunities for teachers and administrators to explore individual and team roles in dismantling inequity in their own communities.

Cambridge, Ma

Lead initiative at Harvard University to support innovation and entrepreneurship in education.Identified, coached, consulted, and provided support to new entrepreneurs and start-ups; Developed and managed Innovation Pitch Competition for student ventures; Led cross-university faculty and student entrepreneur network to facilitate communications, share resources, and provide programming to build university-wide entrepreneurship efforts.

Boston, Ma

Lawrence, Ma

Led district initiatives for the Superintendent designed to transform the learning experiences for students in Lawrence Public Schools. • Championed and developed district-wide continuous improvement and change management initiatives increasing student achievement in K-8 schools for ELA, Math and Science• Transformed K-8 schools into more personalized learning environments by implementing diagnostic and benchmark assessments, as well as customized blended learning plans for acceleration and intervention• Advised a portfolio of Principals on school improvement plans involving staffing, school-based budgeting, performance monitoring and instructional leadership • Led district-wide common core implementation with distinct focus on SPED and ELL support• Provided professional development for K-8 instructional coaches on best practices related to data-driven instruction, curriculum planning and teacher observations and feedback

The School Turnaround Group is a division of Mass Insight Education, a national nonprofit dedicated to closing the achievement gap by turning around our country’s lowest performing schools. The STG partners with school districts and state education agencies to redesign the way they support their lowest-performing schools.

Boston, Ma

An edutech company that allows districts and teachers to build Common Core online curriculum maps that foster collaboration and best practice sharing across classrooms in the U.S.

Boston, Massachusetts

LearnLaunch Accelerator provides the most promising edtech startups worldwide with seed funding, an unmatched team of mentors, intensive coaching and all the tools needed to grow a successful edtech startup.

Boston, Ma & Newark, Nj & New York City, Ny

Coached over 30 urban school leadership teams across the country to embed performance management strategies into their schools’ routines to create and establish a culture of achievement.

Boston, Ma

• Managed 40 part-time consultants to create and edit Math and ELA standards-based interim assessments for grades 3-8 for 6 different states• Designed and managed the creation of standards-aligned tools to aid teachers in improved planning, reassessment and instruction, including an online QuizTool

Boston, Ma

Boston, Ma

Boston Leaders for the Future of Education is comprised of an accomplished group of men and women who have risen to the highest levels of business, government and non-profit organizations in the U.S. They are advocates for dramatic improvements in K-12 education in Boston.

Boston, Ma

• Executed the matriculation campaign to enroll corps members into the Greater Boston program, resulting in the highest acceptance rate of any region in the country • Directed the on-boarding of 50 new corps members, an intensive week-long introduction to the region and the organization; surveys indicated 95% satisfaction rate on all five benchmark variables • Developed a strategic plan to ensure licensure of all corps members based on identified district needs; spearheaded the development and implementation of the Boston University partnership leading to certification and master’s degree tracks for teachers seeking an alternative path to licensure• Tracked, analyzed, and communicated cost overages, savings, risks, and opportunities of our regional budget, as well as supporting analyses that provided actionable guidance and problem solving framework • Analyzed multiple data sources to author weekly reports to highlight trends and inform regional strategy in the following areas: licensure, testing, placement, finance, donor and corps member communication (internal and external Web sites and bi-monthly newsletters)

• Managed customized projects that helped institutional clients make data driven decisions in the following areas: program development and expansion, enrollment management, student demand and preferences, competitive intelligence and benchmark performance • Transformed qualitative and quantitative research methodologies, including constituent surveying, interviews, benchmarking, and statistical modeling into clear business analysis reports• Oversaw team as project manager in designing and executing quantitative measures and survey instruments

Philadelphia, Pa

• Taught three sections of mathematics to at-risk students at low performing middle school• Increased 80% of students' performance by over 2.5 grade levels in first year of teaching • Developed model for tracking state math standards for improved differentiation among heterogeneous groups

Doctor Of Education Leadership (Ed.L.D.)

The Doctor of Education Leadership program leverages the extraordinary resources of Harvard University to prepare system-level leaders.

Master'S Degree, Urban Education And Leadership

Master’s Capstone focused on assessing variables linked to teacher quality to form criteria for merit based pay.

Bachelor Of Arts, Journalism & Political Science

Activities and Societies: Deans' List, Blue Key National Honor Society, 2003 Homecoming Queen, Outstanding Senior Leader Award and Sphinx.