Experience

Executive Leadership: Member of the Senior Leadership Team reporting to the CEO. Drive the organization's "2050 Moonshot" strategy (80% college completion) across ~800 scholars. Pivoted DC CAP to a regional partnership model after a thorough program evaluation on arrival — now Pillar 1 of the FY26–28 strategy. The partner program now sustains 85–90% first-year retention across multiple cohorts, with graduation rates of 75–95% at established partners.

Innovation + Fundraising: Launched DC CAP's Innovation Hub on a $600K KPMG AI Impact Initiative grant, the organization's largest AI investment. The Hub houses the AI Governance Framework, the Career Pathway Intelligence Platform (launching October 2026), and our career-connected learning roadmap. Instrumental in $50M+ in philanthropic commitments since joining, including MacKenzie Scott / Yield Giving.

Organizational Health: Oversee Student Success, University Partnerships, GEAR UP, Innovation, and Data & Technology units. Build the analytics, evaluation, and storytelling infrastructure that anchors the annual fundraising model.

Change Management: Lead the digital transformation roadmap. Designed the AI Governance Framework and run our 60-day AI pilot (nine staff, three units, April–June 2026). Application process compressed from ~10 staff at 20+ hours/week to 1 staff at 3–5 hours/week. Coach administrative load reduced from ~60% of time to under 10%.

Founding Team Member: Second member of the founding research function at Common App, the largest college application dataset in the United States. Defined the data environment, technical stack, research agenda, and data sharing policies.

External Relations: Primary spokesperson for data insights, representing the organization to national media (NYT, Bloomberg) and the Board of Directors.

Strategic Partnerships: Negotiated and managed research collaborations and data-sharing protocols with leading universities. Resulting work was profiled at NBER, Brookings, the Association for Education Finance and Policy (AEFP), and the EdWorkingPapers Series at Brown University's Annenberg Institute. Led randomized control trials on direct admissions and text-message information campaigns.

UVA–Louisiana Department of Education Partnership: Policy and accountability systems research with the Louisiana Department of Education during a multi-year statewide policy rollout (2017–2020). Worked directly with state policymakers and district leaders on accountability design.

Published Research: The partnership produced peer-reviewed publications on policy implementation and program quality. The first statewide longitudinal study of early-childhood program quality improvement under a mandatory QRIS appeared in AERA Open and ECRQ, alongside additional accountability-policy research and a policy brief.

Managed editorial operations, review pipelines, and production scheduling for one of the nation's oldest education policy journals while completing MPP coursework.

Led large achievement gains in elementary school turnaround environment (95th percentile value-added scores). Selected as regional winner of the Excellence in Teaching Award.