Experience

National Ali

• United States
• Health, Wellness & Fitness

• Associate Director of Programs

  • Feb 2020 - Present

  Staff Management and Organizational Leadership: recruiting, hiring, and managing staff (including consultants, part and full-time staff) while providing thought leadership, operational support, skill building, and mentorship opportunities. Fundraising and Program Development: Raising and managing grant funded programming aimed at supporting state level departments of education with their equity initiatives. Facilitation and Consulting: Conducting training, conference workshops, and overall implementation of NAPE’s suite of professional development programs and supporting institution-level change through technical assistance, consultation, and program improvement efforts. Curriculum Building: creating and updating curriculum to meet the diverse needs of educators, government leaders, and employers on educational equity. Consultant Support: Supporting equity instructors by keeping them up to date on current issues in educational equity and NAPE’s programs while mentoring and coaching new instructors through the apprenticeship process. Show less



Self Employed

• Real Estate
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Equity Strategist and Consultant

  • Feb 2019 - Feb 2020

  Curriculum Building and Facilitation: creating curriculum and facilitating sessions for local foundations and community groups committed to sustained equity initiatives. Grassroots Community Organizing: building power alongside our most vulnerable community members to change discriminatory policies in local systems. Participatory Research: facilitating processes that encourage collective inquiry and experimentation grounded in social history and collective liberation. Curriculum Building and Facilitation: creating curriculum and facilitating sessions for local foundations and community groups committed to sustained equity initiatives. Grassroots Community Organizing: building power alongside our most vulnerable community members to change discriminatory policies in local systems. Participatory Research: facilitating processes that encourage collective inquiry and experimentation grounded in social history and collective liberation.



UnifiEd

• United States
• Civic and Social Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director of Policy and Research

  • Dec 2014 - Jan 2019

  Grassroots Community Organizing: working directly with families, students, and teachers to define and address inequities in our local public schools. Curriculum Building & Facilitation: creating courageous spaces and designing participatory methods that enable diverse groups of community members to activate their own expertise to solve some of our public school’s greatest inequities. Policy Research: conducting research to inform local organizing efforts resulting in policy change directly addressing the needs of our most vulnerable students. Communications: writing policy memos and project reports, leading creative participatory design efforts to communicate goals and mission to the public via printed materials, social media, website content, and monthly newsletters while also managing relationships with local broadcast, radio, and news media outlets. Speaker Recruitment: recruiting and building partnerships with nationally recognized educational equity leaders for local speaking engagements including award winning investigative journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, The Century Foundation’s Richard Kahlenberg, and Jefferson County Public School’s Chief Equity Officer John Marshall. Grant Writing & Donor Relations: researching, writing, and submitting grants and grant reports while maintaining positive relationships with donors. Staff Management: recruiting, hiring, and managing staff (including interns, part and full-time staff) while providing operational support, skill building, and mentorship opportunities. Show less



Peace Corps

• United States
• International Affairs
• 700 & Above Employee

• Youth Development Facilitator

  • Jul 2012 - Sep 2014

  Project Coordinator of Typhoon Haiyan Relief Efforts in Northern Negros: Damage assessment, supervised fundraising efforts including facilitating donor participation, distribution of relief goods, post relief follow-up with recipients. Community Organizer for Adolescent Reproductive and Sexual Health Training: Grant writing, fundraising, event planning, participant recruitment, logistical support, facilitation training, monitoring and evaluation. Classroom Facilitator for English, Youth Employability, and Environmental Responsibility Classes: Created modules, facilitated classes, provided performance feedback. Show less


Illinois State University
• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee
• Graduate Teaching Assistant

  • Aug 2011 - May 2012

University of Tennessee
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee
• Research Assistant

  • Aug 2009 - May 2011