Experience

Courageous Conversation®

• United States
• Education Management
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Executive Director of Programming & Development

  • Mar 2023 - Present



NYC Department of Education

• United States
• Primary and Secondary Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Deputy Chief Strategy Officer

  • Oct 2021 - Mar 2023

  The Deputy Chief Strategy Officer serves to assist the Chief Strategy Officer with oversight of a strategic vision for the agency that focuses on effective equity centered growth while contributing to work that is entrenched in the desire to reimagine our system of education and build strategies that prioritize equitable outcomes through a full landscape of a high-quality education.

• Senior Advisor - Office of Equity & Access

  • Mar 2019 - Oct 2021

  Supports strategy design and implementation of policies and initiatives aimed at ending long-standing racial, ethnic and socioeconomic disparities across PK - 12. Oversees the AP for ALL initiative, ensuring all NYC high school students have access to at least 5 open-enrollment AP courses, with a focus on increasing participation and performance for Black and LatinX students.

• New Principal Support Coach

  • Oct 2016 - Feb 2019

  Provided coaching for new principals PK - 12 in their first and second years of school leadership.

• Principal

  • Aug 2010 - Sep 2016

  Under my leadership as Principal, Young Writers took significant steps towards expanding opportunities for young people, including increasing the number of AP courses offered, creating multiple STEM pathways for students of all abilities, developing a nationally-recognized 6-12 Gender-Sexuality Alliance to empower and give voice to LGBTQ+ students, and establishing a student-led Restorative Justice program.

• Assistant Principal of Instruction

  • Jul 2008 - Aug 2010

• Teacher (English)

  • Sep 2006 - Jun 2008

• Teacher - MS 45

  • Sep 2004 - Aug 2006