Develop and lead fundraising and communications strategies for the independent nonprofit partner of Outschool to provide tutoring, enrichment, and nontraditional education experiences to BIPOC and low-income learners. Outschool is a platform with 140K live, virtual classes for ages 3-18. Secured six and seven figure gifts from institutional, corporate, and individual donors.Manage and develop two full-time, Director-level roles and drive organizational direction and decision-making as an executive team member.Lead strategic planning efforts to reposition Outschool.org from providing emergency relief during the COVID-19 pandemic to developing lasting, impactful and sustainable programming to advance learner-led education.Oversee all strategic messaging, public relations, and product marketing efforts, securing seven press hits in three months, and launching first-ever podcast.Manage all impact work, including revising logic models for all programs and developing survey instruments to demonstrate effectiveness and to drive continuous improvement.Successfully recruited more than 343 community-based organizations including schools and districts, afterschool providers, homeschool coops, and microschools to apply for Outschool.org’s third cohort of community partners. Supported community partners with co-designing stakeholder communications and public relations plans

Acted as face of the organization, a national nonprofit devoted to advancing educational equity by improving relationships between teachers, students, and families through professional development and the Family Playlists™ product. Served as the organization’s primary fundraiser, securing 10 new major partnerships exceeding $1M annually during my tenure, including foundation, corporate, major donors, and federal funding. Responsible for direct management of a high-performing team of five and engaged in executive and leadership teams.Drove engagement for PowerMyLearning Board of Trustees, including co-creating meeting agendas with the board chair and overseeing board governance. Successfully recruited 11 new board members during tenure, increasing board diversity from 20% to 50% people of color.Led strategic planning process, resulting in a revised mission statement and an operational plan for execution.Developed messaging frameworks aligned to evolving organizational priorities and positioning, managed public relations consultants, increased brand awareness, generated fee-for-service leads, developed customer insights for new products and programs, and engaged families in product and programs.Launched PowerMyLearning's new product lines to increase fee-for-service revenue by 45% and to improve effectiveness for students, leading to statistically significant impact on social emotional learning, particularly for English Language Learners. Improved talent, operations, and finance processes, reducing costs to maximize effectiveness of organizational budget. Acted as Co-Chair of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee, developing and launching a Multi-Year DEI Plan. Acted as Chief of Staff during COVID-19 to transition to a remote workforce of 45 staff members, creating new organizational communication structures for leadership and all staff. Point person for crisis management.

• Founding leader on executive team that grew organization from start-up to $40M budget for six schools. Thought partner to CEO on organizational issues including staff structure, board governance, strategy, growth plan, executive team management for team of six, HR, and culture. • Acted as the face of the organization. Raised $4M annually corporations, foundations, and individuals, including the annual gala, directly managing a team of three. • Identified and secured strategic partnerships with organizations such as Barclays, National Dance Institute, and West Point, resulting in new revenue streams for organization. • Ran the Development and Governance Committees of the Board of Trustees.

• Engaged in 10-week education leadership pipeline program. • Created communications strategy for CSAS and redesigned website.

• Developed and oversaw the recruitment and hiring strategy for 200 positions in the network, including senior leadership, instructional, and business and operations roles.• Led change management process and worked with 25 leaders across the organization to implement new hiring process.• Partner to CEO and six Principals to create staffing growth, branding, and retention strategies. Resulted in increase of accepts of new hires and retention of current staff.

Responsible for listings page and writing arts reviews and features. Assist in general editing and proofreading.

Planned and executed fourth grade instruction. Developed supplemental reading, writing and math curriculum. Gathered and analyzed data for student growth. Attended intensive training sessions on weekends and met frequently with a program director at Teach For America to improve practice. Facilitated and founded an after-school arts club. Mentored a first-year teacher.

Award-winning, weekly college newspaper. I worked as a features/lifestyle editor, news editor and writer.

Edited copy for news and local sections. Wrote headlines, cutlines and photo captions. Full-time, paid internship.

Freelanced enterprise stories for the features section.