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• Managing numerous projects with multi-million dollar budgets and leadings teams around exploring and scaling education practices rooted in equity and racial justice in collaboration with national education funders• Convening and assisting district and school leaders in strategic planning and implementation of equity-centered approaches to education such as the expansion of the Chicago Roadmap• Leading the development and launching of two key postsecondary initiatives of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Washington State team: the Limitless Learning Network, a collaborative statewide learning network for K12 and higher education partners, and the Horizons grants program to support regional partnerships ready to scale to help more students transition from K12 into postsecondary education

New York, New York, United States

• Provided personalized research and evaluation to three state education agencies and two charter management organizations working to implement innovative and more equitable formative and summative assessments• Conducted research on SEL policies, programs and resources to inform philanthropic investment strategies and the education field at large

New York, New York, United States

• Designed convenings and facilitated partnerships between nine school districts and seven national technical assistance providers working to accelerate learning in the context of COVID-19 response and recovery• Conducted qualitative research to identify six characteristics of equity-centered SEL and recommend shifts that school districts, philanthropy and other organizations can make to center equity in SEL policies, programs and practices

New York, New York, United States

• Managed projects in collaboration with other research associates around public health and policy for LGBTQIA+ communities• Led quantitative analysis related to research and impact evaluation in the fields of philanthropy, education, and public health

• Communicated effectively with a wide range of stakeholders through program monitoring and evaluations for various non-profit organizations, philanthropic funds, and government agencies• Conducted quantitative analysis using Stata and Excel, including data cleaning and data visualization

Cambridge, Ma

• Contributed to survey analysis via quality control and cleaning of large data sets• Supported the management of research partnerships by responding to research inquiries and making preliminary partnership recommendation

Cambridge, Ma

• Participated in Equity & Inclusion Fellows programming focusing on intergroup dialogue• Organized annual Celebration of Cultures & Identities, Social Justice Workshops, and community events

Lyons, Illinois

• Doubled normative expected growth on NWEA MAP as the mean score of 120 students increased by eight points• Adapted Connected Mathematics Project 3 curriculum through supplementing it with Kagan cooperative learning structures and three-act math tasks

Master Of Education - Ed.M., Education Policy Analysis

Applied Data Analysis • Modeled multilevel data structures using Stata • Interpreted and summarized analytic results.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Elementary Education And Teaching