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Senior Vice President, Florida Community Engagement

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NON-PROFIT/PHILANTHROPY SENIOR EXECUTIVE & PUBLIC POLICY LEADER Education Law, Policy & Philanthropy • Organizational Leadership • Critical Thinking & Strategic Planning • Senior Vice President for Florida Community Engagement (community investments, policy and advocacy, communications and marketing) at an endowed education foundation focused on advancing student academic preparedness and creating a college-going and completing culture in Arizona and Florida •Former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education and nonprofit Chief Executive Officer with especially strong critical-thinking and strategic-planning skills for advancing Federal and State education reforms • Deep subject-matter expertise in Federal and State education law and policy innovations, including preK-12, higher education and student loans, civil rights, special education, charter schools and school choice, and homeschooling • Results-oriented, dynamic leader with demonstrated ability to catapult nonprofit organizations and government offices to increasingly higher levels of performance while achieving long-term strategic vision • Demonstrated ability to define a problem, develop and evaluate options, assess reactions and consequences, build or negotiate consensus, and make and implement clear decisions, developed through multi-disciplinary graduate training in history, law, and public policy and through senior leadership roles in the Federal government and at private foundation, public charity, think tank, and non-profit policy and advocacy organizations