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The Charter School Growth Fund identifies the country’s best public charter schools, funds their growth, and helps to increase their impact.

I established Collective Vector, LLC to partner with schools and non-profits to yield meaningful outcomes for students, teachers, leaders, and the community at large. I believe collaboration is a key to success; as a consultant I work with partners to establish shared purpose and chart a path forward together. I am committed to excellence in strategic.

Leading The Opportunity Trust's talent initiatives to manage investments and effectively deliver programs for educational leaders that increase the number of students attending high-quality schools in St. Louis.-Develop the Instructional Leadership Fellowship, managing the process from ideation through design, pilot, and scaling implementation with the.

Leading The Opportunity Trust's fellowship and talent initiatives to effectively deliver programs for educational leaders that increase the number of students attending high-quality schools in St. Louis. -Manage and regularly refine the recruitment, selection, and enrollment process for new fellows and residents-Design and deliver high caliber programming.

Led operational and administrative aspects of The Opportunity Trust's programs and portfolios supporting high quality schools and talent pipelines.

Greater St. Louis Area

Leading the WE Schools Missouri strategy and supporting local implementing and funding partners:-Developing and maintaining partnerships with educational leaders to integrate service-learning and trauma informed practices into local schools to empower the next generation of change-makers-Raised over $320,000 for WE Schools by mobilizing individual donors.

Greater St. Louis Area

Connected educators and youth-serving organizations with transformative experiential service-learning opportunities through the WE Schools program. -Managed partnerships with leaders of school districts, independent schools, and community organizations and programs. -Conducted outreach to increase WE Schools engagement by 78% from 110 groups to.

Client: International Rescue Committee. Conducted a mixed methods final evaluation for the Monitoring and Evaluation Technical Assistance project, which builds M&E capacity among refugee service providers.

Arlington, VA

-Supervised two Program Officers.-Served as the team lead for R&P programmatic themes: Cultural Orientation, Family Reunification, Gender, Refugee Health, Refugee Mental Health, and Refugee Minors.-Supported three affiliates for quality, compliant provision of reception and placement programming.-Provided technical assistance on refugee minor cases and.

Arlington, VA

-Supported three affiliates in the provision of quality, compliant reception and placement programming.-Served as focal point for Cultural Orientation, developing resources and providing technical assistance.-Conducted two affiliate monitoring visits.-Analyzed data and encouraged an expansion of M&E to support program improvement.-Developed results.

Alexandria, VA

-Provide leadership, planning, technical support, and management on education and literacy aspects of McGovern-Dole Food for Education program in Northwest Cameroon-Facilitate organizational development through revision of organizational chart, creation of job descriptions, and leadership of strategic planning process-Provide technical supervision to two.

Juba, South Sudan

-Designed 5 day training on psychosocial support-Designed 1 day training on gender based violence-Supported 3 day training on Peace Education for 57 teachers and community leaders-Assisted with distribution of hygienic materials to 350 children and youth-Facilitated focus group discussion on youth civic engagement

East St. Louis, IL

-Conducted program evaluation for the District’s truancy interventions and teacher evaluation process-Facilitated three community fora as part of Collective Impact process within community-Designed and secured $7,000 grant for a solar panel-Supported grant proposal development for STEM education and truancy interventions-Developed a program for violence.

-Supported event planning, including marketing, registration management, and logistical arrangements-Updated Policy Forum website using workflow process-Added event details to Brown School of Social Work online calendar

-Co-authored paper published in the Journal of Consumer Affairs-Authored literature reviews and other research and writing tasks on the topics of financial literacy and capability, individual development accounts, child savings accounts, etc. -Assisted with Associate Editor responsibilities for a Special Issue of an academic journal

Greater St. Louis Area

-Developed and implemented program evaluation for homebuyer's education and Individual Development Accounts (IDAs)-Assisted with youth IDA program management-Created youth IDA communication materials via newsletter and facebook-Facilitated financial education sessions-Provided FAFSA completion assistance to students and parents

Supported low-income students who showed academic potential through study sessions aimed at improving critical thinking and organizational skills to increase college readiness.

Swaziland

-Developed facilitation guides for, trained facilitators for, and coordinated implementation of five sectorial and one national dialogues on violence against children in and around schools-Conceptualized a monitoring and evaluation framework, including monitoring tools, and trained colleagues on basic monitoring and evaluation principles and how to collect.

Swaziland

-Conducted an intensive community assessment and compiled a report to articulate development priorities-Taught Life Skills classes to 190 students in Forms I-IV (equivalent to grades 8-11, ages 13-24) at Sibetsaphi High School for the 2010 academic year-Compiled a Life Skills curriculum for Sibetsaphi High School and trained relevant teachers on its.

Supported low-income students who showed academic potential through study sessions aimed at improving critical thinking and organizational skills to increase college readiness.

Conducted assets-based mapping of the Colorado Springs. Coordinated service-learning partnerships between K-12 schools, Colorado College, and local community based organizations. Trained K-12 teachers on service-learning methodology. Participated in Public Achievement program, a civic engagement curriculum targeted at high-risk youth.

Master Of Social Work (Msw), International Social And Economic Development, 4.0

Activities and Societies: Student Coordinating Council - Community Service LiaisonSelected Coursework: International Child Welfare.

Bachelor Of Arts, Sociology, 3.87

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