Experience

FourPoint Education Partners

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

• Educational Consultant

  • Jun 2023 - Present



Edifying Teachers

• United States
• Education Management
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Interim Director of Operations

  • Jun 2023 - Present

  -Documenting process to ensure coherent implementation for an education mentoring company. -Documenting process to ensure coherent implementation for an education mentoring company.



Elev8 Baltimore

• Education Management
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Program Officer

  • Nov 2021 - Jun 2023

  • Elev8 Baltimore partners with schools, families and the community to ensure that every student is prepared for high school, college, career, and life. The Chief Program Officer leads a team of more than twenty full-time staff members and 40 part-time staff members that implements the community schools strategy, after school programming, and adult education services. • Earned more than $800,000 of anticipated revenue for the organization by initiating a high-dosage tutoring program and writing successful new grants. • Identified a cohesive programmatic framework and aligned team-wide goal setting and employee performance management to that framework. • Improved data collection practices to enable the calculation of a trackable organizational after-school attendance rate for SY 2022-23. • Launched South Baltimore Adult High School in a complicated regulatory framework and the re-launch of the AARP Experience Corps program in Baltimore City on an expedited timeline. Show less



Baltimore City Public Schools

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

• Manager, College and Career Readiness

  • Dec 2016 - Nov 2021

  • Chief of staff to the Executive Director of College and Career Readiness and acting leader of six-member team. Represented office to build partnerships between schools, city government, and community non-profits. Served as acting Director of College Readiness and acting Executive Director during tenure.• Lead teams between three and six direct reports responsible for college access, school counseling, school scheduling, grade reporting, policy, strategic planning, Gear Up grant implementation, policy development, hiring, and office management for the Office of College and Career Readiness.• Maintained or improved the following district metrics despite decreased school based and central office staffing due to a $129 million district budget deficit: college application rate, college acceptance rate, FAFSA completion rate, on-time student scheduling, and on-time report card distribution.• Budget and procurement manager of budget of more than $9 million per year, including district funds, state P-TECH, Perkins, ESSER, Title IV, foundation, and GEARUP funds. • Improved customer service to schools by integrating school based strategic planning, budgeting, scheduling processes. Aligned K-8 scheduling models with district budget guidance.• Project managed creation and implementation of district’s school enrollment-based strategic planning and scheduling process, school counselor evaluation, grading policy, grade change guidance, and promotion and retention policy, • Responsible for the creation of the district's inaugural mentoring and adult relationships team.• Developed team into independent project managers in a complicated political environment.• Initiated and operationalized our office’s Parent Academy for Quality Education. Show less

• Data Specialist

  • Sep 2015 - Dec 2016

  -Responsible for providing data strategy support to all non-charter K-8 schools in Baltimore City Public Schools.-Developed new district school performance plan process-Set districtwide targets for the 2016-2020 strategic plan for more than forty metrics. Combined research-based methodologies with input from content leads. -Conducted a needs assessment of central office data availability.

• Analyst

  • Sep 2014 - Sep 2015

  -Manage project teams for a portfolio of five Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE) reporting projects. -Created the role of school-based data quality contact and professional developed the contacts to increase data quality in the district and reduce state reporting errors.-Coordinate district wide data cleansing efforts across 182 schools.-Selected by Office of Achievement and Accountability management team to serve on budget task force, data quality workgroup, and student information system (SIS) selection committees. Show less



Various

• Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• Graduate School Consultant

  • Sep 2012 - Sep 2014

  • Led LearnDC.org internal data project team, including management of deliverables and timelines as an Education Pioneers Consulting Fellow for the Office of State Superintendent of Education in Washington DC. • Created emergency management plan and excel training curriculum as an Operations Intern at KIPP Philadelphia. • Created operations plan and projected cost savings for collaborative of Durham charter schools. • Developed first year budget for new special needs charter school in Raleigh, NC. • Designed evidence-based statewide teacher salary schedule for NC Dept. of Public Instruction. Show less



Duke Interdisciplinary Social Innovators

• Durham, North Carolina

• Co-Founder and Co-President

  • Sep 2012 - Jan 2014

  DISI convenes interdisciplinary graduate student teams that provide pro-bono consulting and technology services to social organizations in Durham and beyond. DISI provides students with the opportunity to gain experience beyond the classroom in a collaborative environment while strengthening the work of change makers at the intersection of technology, business, and public policy. The organization is entering its third semester and has already completed 24 projects. www.disiduke.org DISI convenes interdisciplinary graduate student teams that provide pro-bono consulting and technology services to social organizations in Durham and beyond. DISI provides students with the opportunity to gain experience beyond the classroom in a collaborative environment while strengthening the work of change makers at the intersection of technology, business, and public policy. The organization is entering its third semester and has already completed 24 projects. www.disiduke.org



Crisis Intervention of Houston

• Non-profit Organization Management
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Program Coordinator

  • Jun 2011 - Jun 2012

  • Demonstrated need for, created, and executed integrated human resource, technology, data, and operational process changes that increased answered call rate from 67 percent to 82 percent. • Replicated Teach for America’s recruitment model to develop relationships with nine Houston Universities through student liaisons, increasing size of volunteer staff from 21 to 83 people. • Demonstrated need for, created, and executed integrated human resource, technology, data, and operational process changes that increased answered call rate from 67 percent to 82 percent. • Replicated Teach for America’s recruitment model to develop relationships with nine Houston Universities through student liaisons, increasing size of volunteer staff from 21 to 83 people.



Teach For America

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

• Seventh Grade Math Teacher

  • Jun 2010 - Mar 2011



Various Non-Profit Organizations

• Various Locations

• Policy-Related Interships

  • Jan 2007 - Feb 2011

  Managed neighborhood survey for Allegheny West CDC to secure $500,000 grant. Marketed book, A Grand Bargain for Education Reform, at Operation Public Education. Summarized state policy for Director of Legislative Affairs at the Alliance for Excellent Education. Created dropout prevention database for the Philadelphia Education Fund. Created 35 spreadsheets and researched 100 websites for a comparative urban studies database by Rice Professor Melissa Marschall. Managed neighborhood survey for Allegheny West CDC to secure $500,000 grant. Marketed book, A Grand Bargain for Education Reform, at Operation Public Education. Summarized state policy for Director of Legislative Affairs at the Alliance for Excellent Education. Created dropout prevention database for the Philadelphia Education Fund. Created 35 spreadsheets and researched 100 websites for a comparative urban studies database by Rice Professor Melissa Marschall.