Experience

Washington STEM

• United States
• Education Administration Programs
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Impact & Policy Officer

  • Jul 2022 - Present

  I lead the Impact and Policy Teams at Washington STEM, to pursue and implement all internal and external research, evaluation, and data analytics activities as well as policy and advocacy efforts, for purposes of informing organizational priorities and maximizing impacts for students of Washington state. I lead on:• Strategies and approaches to measuring organizational impact outcomes related to delivery of key organizational activities to partners (STEM Networks, state agencies, early learning partners, and other partners) and partners’ delivery on their intended outcomes (partnership health)• Efforts that support state agencies, regional STEM Networks, and other partners in accessing, using, synthesizing, and analyzing public and proprietary or newly-gathered datasets to identify goals, trends, gaps, and opportunities• Identification, coordination, and implementation of Washington STEM’s policy and advocacy agenda and support agenda that reflect our organizational goals and DEI values and efforts and in collaboration with our advocacy coalition, STEM Networks, and other regional and statewide partners.• Development and execution of applied measurement with partners in the field to inform opportunities for scaling of cycles of learning as well as opportunities for policy change at the regional and statewide level.• Generation of key data points and data-driven insights to advance professional learning and improvement among Washington STEM staff and partners. • Creation of reports, presentations, educational sessions, toolkits, dashboards, and other tools, both ad hoc and formal, to communicate learnings, policy opportunities, and impact to ecosystem leaders, funders, and partners.

• Chief Impact Officer

  • Apr 2020 - Present

• Impact Director

  • Feb 2018 - Apr 2020



University of Washington

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Scientist & Director of Advancement, Unite:Ed

  • Apr 2016 - Feb 2018

  Primary investigator of a research project with a team of smart data scientists and public policy gurus, investigating each of Washington State's workforce development regions in order to understand our capacity for increasing the overall number of and closing equity gaps for local residents to access the training and/or higher education needed to land the great jobs this state has to offer. The research includes regional-level data and information from three sectors: region-based employers, regional higher education institutions (voc/tech, 2-year, and 4-year), and student/job-seeker population data (K-12 students, adult re-enterers, veterans, students, partial degree completion adults). Results of this study are intended to inform leaders from the public and private sectors in each region in regards to current, as well as future workforce (and therefore, higher education credentialing) needs, and preliminarily assess options for growing higher education capacity in the region.I am also supporting a new endeavor at the UW College of Education, Unite:Ed, which aims to support and organize our great research and programming around local communities and education institutions. More on this to come as we build out this project.

• Director

  • Nov 2012 - Apr 2016

  The mission of the University of Washington Dream Project is to assist low-income and first-generation high school students in attaining higher education and to raise awareness among university students about the issues of educational opportunity and social mobility.

• Assistant Director, Evaluation and Research

  • Oct 2010 - Nov 2012

• Research Assistant, College of Education

  • Mar 2010 - Sep 2012

• Academic Adviser, Minor in Education, Learning and Society

  • Oct 2007 - Oct 2010