MY RESUME

Professional Experience

Education Design Lab | 2015 – Present
Senior Education Designer

The Education Design Lab is a nonprofit organization, working to help learning institutions and entrepreneurs innovate in a rapidly changing landscape while maintaining a keen focus on student success.

Design Challenge Highlights
- Community College Growth Engine Fund (2020-Current)
- WGU - College of X (2021)
- Goodwill Industry International Summer of Design (2020)
- Single Moms Success Design Challenge with the ECMC Foundation (2019 - Current)
- Seamless Transfer Pathways Design Challenge with the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation (2017-2019)
- Western Governors University Peer to Peer Student Engagement Challenge (2016)
- Traditional Model Redesign with Lumina Foundation and HCM Strategists (2015-2016)

Design Sprints & Presentations
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- Wayne State University - Transition 2.0 (1-Day Transfer Focused Design Sprint) 2019
- NISTS Annual Conference - Turning Insights Into Action (Plenary) 2019
- NISTS Annual Conference - Seamless Transfer Pathways - A Year in Review (Panelist) 2019
- NISTS Annual Conference - Springing Ideas Into Action (Plenary) 2018
- UNCF Career Pathways Initiative Annual Convening (2-1/2 Day Design Sprint) 2016

Education Consultant |2011- Current
Strategic & Master Planning Consultant/Analyst

TNTP | 2013 – 2015
Project Director, Strategy, Systems and Policy // Performance Management

  • TNTP is a national nonprofit committed to ending the injustice of educational inequality. Founded by teachers in 1997, TNTP works with schools, districts and states to provide excellent teachers to the students who need them most and advance policies and practices that ensure effective teaching in every classroom.

VSP | 2013
Corporate Business Analyst

  • VSP Vision Care is a not-for-profit vision insurance company which provides eyecare plans to 60 million people in the United States and Canada, the largest not-for-profit vision care company in the United States.

StudentsFirst | 2012-2013
Policy Data Products Manager

  • StudentsFirst formed in 2010 in response to an increasing demand for a better education system in America. The movement is designed to mobilize parents, teachers, students, administrators, and citizens throughout the country, and to channel their energy to produce meaningful results on both the local and national level.

gkkworks | 2007-2011
Senior Planner/Consultant

CCSGroup | 2005-2007
Planner/Research Analyst

California State University-Sacramento | 2002-2005
Administrative Support, Student Affairs Office – College of Business Affairs

Other Organizations, Volunteer Experiences & Causes

Mentorship Programs at the W.P. Carey School of Business, ASU | 2016 - Present
Career Mentor
The Mentorship Programs at the W. P. Carey School of Business provides directed, intentional mentoring opportunities for undergraduate business students who are interested in; internship and career discovery, building a strong network of professional relationships, goal setting, and personal and professional development.

Race and Cultural Equity Task Force, Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission| 2017
Volunteer Task Force Member
Ensure that the policies, practices and procedures of the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts, reflect the rich diversity (Demographic, Disciplinary, and cultural) of the population of Sacramento.

Asian and Pacific American Women of Excellence (APAWE) | 2014 - 2017
Participant

Reading Partners | 2014
Reading Tutor
Reading Partners is a nonprofit literacy organization that recruits and trains community volunteers to provide one-on-one reading tutoring to students in under-resourced schools across the country. This program has helped thousands of children master the fundamental reading skills they need to succeed in school and beyond.

Synopsys Sacramento Regional Science & Engineering Fair | 2014
Volunteer Judge
The NorCal STEM Education Foundation (formerly Sacramento Regional Science & Engineering Fair Foundation) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation whose mission is to encourage and reward STEM excellence by high school and middle school students in the Sacramento region, which includes Amador, Butte, El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento, San Joaquin, Solano, Sutter, Yolo and Yuba counties. Each event is entirely supported by the community through business sponsorship, donations and volunteers.

TEDxSacramento | 2012-2013
Volunteer, Speaker Development/Operations & Logistics
TEDx was created in the spirit of TED’s mission, “ideas worth spreading.” The program is designed to give communities, organizations and individuals the opportunity to stimulate dialogue through TED-like experiences at the local level.

Leadership California
Leadership Class of 2013
Leadership California is a network of accomplished women, dedicated to advancing the leadership role women play in impacting business, social issues and public policy.

Education

W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University
MBA, Master of Business Administration, Supply Chain Management

California State University-Sacramento
Bachelor of Arts, Biological Sciences

UC Davis Extension 
Certificate, Project Management

Independent Study Courses
Various Coursework Including: