Edifying Teachers

Providing innovative leadership to bridge national efforts to diversify the teacher workforce, connecting new and aspiring teachers of color with experienced leaders of color, providing ongoing mentorship, encouragement, and curated resources.

Founder & CEO

Johns Hopkins University School of Education

Teaching in the Master of Science in Education - International Teaching and Global Leadership Program

Adjunct Professor

The Alumni Society

Serving as an active member of a global network of Latino leaders who graduated from the country’s top universities, collaborating to accelerate growth and positive impact.

Member

FourPoint Education Partners

Leading the firm's growing college, career, and life readiness portfolio, supporting communities around the country
• Providing system-level assessment, strategic planning, and professional development to ensure coherence and efficiency across all departments and stakeholders in the community, connected to measurable goals for access and equity for all students
• Utilizing best practices in improvement science and collective impact to optimize rapid growth and improvement through heightened coordination and creative identification and deployment of available community resources

Vice President & Partner

American University

Center for Postsecondary Readiness and Success

Serving as an expert on college and career readiness among well respected scholars, practitioners, and leaders, to advocate and promote strategies to increase equitable postsecondary preparation, access, and completion.

Advisory Board Member

National College Access Network

Helped school district leaders in Broward County, FL and Providence, RI get more students to and through college as part of a 20-city grant cohort, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Data Coach (Contracted)

Maryland Business Roundtable for Education

Advocating for public education and directing strategic resources and supports to school districts across Maryland, in partnership with civic-minded employers, the public sector, and the foundation community.

The Maryland Business Roundtable for Education (MBRT) mobilizes employers and individuals to play an active role in supporting excellence and accountability in education by demonstrating and modeling the connection between achievement in school and success in the workplace. Our mentors and staff engage students in the classroom, establishing relationships that help to improve individual learning, inspire everyone to consider a college education, and open their eyes to a multitude of career pathways with companies in Maryland. We take a personal, hands-on approach to mentoring that helps bridge the knowledge gap, humanizes the working world, and guides each student to achieve the future they imagine for themselves.

Chief Education Officer

Baltimore City Public Schools

The Office of College and Career Readiness consistently improved the life trajectory for City Schools students. National Student Clearinghouse data verified by the Baltimore Education Research Consortium (BERC) showed that, in addition to a 2-percentage point increase in City Schools' college-going rate from 2014 to 2015, a statistically significant shift in the proportion of students enrolled in 4-year institutions, from 46.0% in 2014 to 53.3% in 2015.

A collective impact approach effectively facilitated collaboration among City Schools staff and partners, including those in industry, area colleges and universities, community-based organizations, and national college access partners to substantially increase college and career readiness, access, and success for Baltimore City students.

Executive Director, College and Career Readiness

Milwaukee Public Schools

By connecting internal and external stakeholders, my team led major improvements in Milwaukee students' access to, and readiness for, college and careers. The MPS Department of College and Career Readiness tackles these challenges by supporting families' understanding of pathways to college and careers, empowering them through district initiatives, including efforts funded by public and private partners. Key work included aligning MPS' work with that of its college and university partners to decrease the need for remediation by providing students with early interventions and opportunities for rigorous coursework, leveraging new and emerging technologies. Collaboration with, and support for, the broader community strengthened the reach of these efforts.

In addition to overseeing the department of school counseling, major initiatives included TEAM GEAR UP, MPS' locally matched, seven-year federal grant; The Degree Project, a promise scholarship program for the Class of 2015, with IES grant research support; as well as the MPS TEAM UP College Access Centers, supported by the Great Lakes Higher Education Guaranty Corporation.

My team's work was evidenced by the more than $31 million in scholarships earned by 2014 MPS graduates, a substantial increase from the $24 million in scholarships earned by 2013 graduates and the $17.7 million in 2012.

Director of College and Career Readiness

-Strengthened and expanded district-wide college readiness and access initiatives in collaboration with community and corporate partners.
-Provided leadership for the district office of school counseling.
-Leveraged technology tools to expand learning opportunities for all students, including advanced course offerings, as well as interventions for students at-risk for dropping out.

Program Coordinator, Chief Academic Office

•Provided instructional leadership for grades 6 and 7, as well as bilingual department
•Administered Special Services department of 10 instructional staff
•Programmer (School Scheduler) for grades 6-12

Acting Assistant Principal

Mathematics & Computer Science (Pulaski HS & South Division HS, 2001-2009)
-Taught mathematics courses from pre-algebra to pre-calculus, including bilingual classes at South Division, as well as a variety of computer education courses, utilizing Moodle and SMART Board technologies.

School Programmer (Pulaski HS, 2008)
-Collaborated with administration and department chairs to revise school's course catalog, then oversaw student course selection.
-Ensured effective course scheduling for 1700 students in a school with six small learning communities.

Learning Coordinator (Pulaski HS - Opportunity Center, 2006-2007)
-Facilitated organization and implementation of credit-recovery program for repeating freshmen.
-Coordinated cross-curricular planning, to motivate and educate at-risk youth.

High School Teacher

Marquette University

Prepared and delivered curricula for incoming freshmen using interactive technology. Courses included Calculus, Statistics and Probability, and Introduction to Business Math.

College Math Instructor, Educational Opportunity Program - Student Support Services

Visionary systems thinker and national thought leader, bridging research and practice in education and workforce development. 

Dynamic and forward-thinking, multilingual, multicultural educator with rich experiences in pK-20 education, with demonstrated success in leading collaborative, cross-sector efforts to increase college and career readiness, access, and success.

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