School was a source of opportunity when I needed it most.

I've spent my career working to ensure that same opportunity exists for students in our schools and communities.

For me, that has meant operating across sectors and settings that often struggle to communicate with one another. I joined Teach For America out of college and taught elementary school in South Louisiana. I trained as a researcher at UVA, where I worked with Louisiana's Department of Education on accountability policy. I helped found the research function at the Common App, working to build a public insights engine from the largest college application dataset in the country.

Today I serve as Chief Strategy and Analytics Officer at DC CAP, leading Student Success, University Partnerships, GEAR UP, Innovation, and Data & Technology. Our model is a regional partnership: 14 partner universities where our Success Coaches support scholars through graduation, and scholars stack DC CAP funding with Pell, DC TAG, and institutional aid.

In our flagship University Partnership program, 76% of Class of 2021 scholars earned a degree within five years, ranging from 57% to 100% by partner campus. For context, 37% of D.C. students who enroll in college finish within six years, and 19–25% of first-generation, low-income students do nationally. Our scholars are selected and supported, so read these comparisons as context for our outcomes. How we measure this → We publish the full year in our FY26 Impact Report.

Most of the work is relational. It lives in the relationships we build with our scholars, with the families and communities that raise them, with the high school counselors who refer them, with the partner universities who graduate them, and with the local foundations and corporations who fund the work.

Some of the work is technical. The scholarship lifecycle now runs in Salesforce, where we rebuilt the system that moves a scholar from application through award, acceptance, and renewal, along with the communications that move it forward for counselors, partner universities, and families. Work that used to live in spreadsheets and in the memory of whoever had been here longest now sits in one place the whole team can see. Each year we match scholars to our partner universities on mutual preferences, with the match running student-first so each scholar gets the best placement available to them.

I designed the framework that governs how our staff use AI, including what is safe to hand off and how we protect student privacy, with the materials public at dccapinnovation.org. I teach it in-house too: all nine DC CAP leaders who finished my leadership AI training improved on our own fluency assessment, and the course is now open to every staff member. I also built the DC Evidence Room, which makes the case that college in D.C. is affordable and worth it, and that the hard parts are finishing and landing a first job that uses the degree. Every figure names its source and its method. DC CAP’s College Navigator, the first product of our Career Pathway Intelligence Platform, helps students, counselors, and families compare where different college and career paths lead.