Experience

Purpose Built Communities

• United States
• Non-profit Organization Management
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Vice President, Network Member Support

  • Jun 2020 - Present

• Senior Community Development Advisor

  • Jul 2019 - Jun 2020

• Graduate Internship Director (concurrrent role)

  • Feb 2018 - Feb 2020

• Community Development Advisor

  • Sep 2015 - Jul 2019

  Purpose Built Communities is an Atlanta-based non-profit consulting firm helping local leaders across the nation break the cycle of intergenerational poverty by restoring historically disinvested neighborhoods into again vibrant and sustainable communities where everyone has the opportunity to thrive. We provide free consulting and coaching services to help local leaders plan and implement sustainable neighborhood revitalization efforts using a holistic framework that employs strategies which assure greater racial equity, create economic mobility, and improve health outcomes for families and children. Show less



Georgia Governor's Office of Student Achievement (GOSA)

• Atlanta, Georgia, United States

• Policy and Advocacy Summer Fellow

  • May 2015 - Aug 2015

  2015 Summer Equity and Policy Fellow with Georgia's nonpartisan education agency under Governor Nathan Deal (R-Ga.). Projects included increasing equitable recruitment and enrollment policies that improved diversity within the Governor's Honors Program in addition to grant management and evaluation of the recipients of Georgia's Innovation Fund and the Innovation in Teaching Competition. 2015 Summer Equity and Policy Fellow with Georgia's nonpartisan education agency under Governor Nathan Deal (R-Ga.). Projects included increasing equitable recruitment and enrollment policies that improved diversity within the Governor's Honors Program in addition to grant management and evaluation of the recipients of Georgia's Innovation Fund and the Innovation in Teaching Competition.



Teach For America

• United States
• Education Administration Programs
• 700 & Above Employee

• Culture Specialist - Delta Summer Training Institute

  • Jan 2014 - Jul 2014

  Designed and facilitated adult-learning and self-reflection sessions during summer corps member preparation focused on the following concepts at the heart of the work: culturally relevant pedagogy, anti-racist teacher leadership, universal design for learning, and social-emotional learning. Goal of session design was to assure corps members left institute prepared to provide students with a high-quality education and to pursue a lifetime commitment to advancing educational equity and excellence. Designed and facilitated adult-learning and self-reflection sessions during summer corps member preparation focused on the following concepts at the heart of the work: culturally relevant pedagogy, anti-racist teacher leadership, universal design for learning, and social-emotional learning. Goal of session design was to assure corps members left institute prepared to provide students with a high-quality education and to pursue a lifetime commitment to advancing educational equity and excellence.



United States Senate

• Legislative Offices
• 700 & Above Employee

• Legislative Aide - Office of United States Senator Mary L. Landrieu (D-La.)

  • May 2013 - May 2014

  Legal aide working on behalf of Senator Mary Landrieu's state and local education liaisons to communicate and support her official positions across Louisiana and her four offices; Additionally tasked with constructing research briefs to support official positions as well as daily constituent correspondence, data entry, and coordinating logistics for official Senatorial visits on behalf of Capitol staff. Legal aide working on behalf of Senator Mary Landrieu's state and local education liaisons to communicate and support her official positions across Louisiana and her four offices; Additionally tasked with constructing research briefs to support official positions as well as daily constituent correspondence, data entry, and coordinating logistics for official Senatorial visits on behalf of Capitol staff.



Teach For America Metro Atlanta

• United States
• Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• 2010 Teach For America Corps Member | Elementary Teacher

  • May 2010 - Aug 2012

  Teach For America is a bold and diverse movement of changemakers who confront educational inequity by teaching for at least two years and then working with unwavering commitment in every sector of society to create a nation free from this injustice. Together with partners throughout the educational ecosystem, a network of over 62,000 alumni and corps members are achieving the impossible, empowering lives, and helping shape the political, economic, and social future of our country. Teach For America is a bold and diverse movement of changemakers who confront educational inequity by teaching for at least two years and then working with unwavering commitment in every sector of society to create a nation free from this injustice. Together with partners throughout the educational ecosystem, a network of over 62,000 alumni and corps members are achieving the impossible, empowering lives, and helping shape the political, economic, and social future of our country.



Wachovia Corp

• United States
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Bank Teller

  • Sep 2009 - May 2010

  Served as a bank teller at the Embry Hills Wachovia branch during the nationwide merge with Wells Fargo Banking. Completed customer financial transactions and responsible for acting as first line of defense against fraudulent banking activity and balancing my drawer daily. Served as a bank teller at the Embry Hills Wachovia branch during the nationwide merge with Wells Fargo Banking. Completed customer financial transactions and responsible for acting as first line of defense against fraudulent banking activity and balancing my drawer daily.