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Leadership Experience

Denver Public Schools


Robert F. Smith STEAM Academy

Founding Principal


Responsibilities: 

     Create and refine core content curricula to ensure alignment with Common Core and Colorado Academic Standards and school focus: Blackness, STEAM and Project Based Learning. 


Build partnerships with district and external programs to develop pathways to college credit-bearing courses and extracurricular opportunities for students.


Design professional development opportunities for teachers based on individual and school-based areas of focus. 


Serve as liaison between school design team and district representatives (marketing, legal, content area specialists).


Facilitate scholar voice through establishing Student Council, workshops, field trips and empathy interviews. 


Write, edit and review family and community communication through newsletters and social media presence (Facebook, Instagram. YouTube).


Coordinate facility modifications with shared campus leader, according to district policy.


 Engage educators, families and community stakeholders in planning conversations, consensus building conversations and events. . 


Define and refine Unified Improvement Plan goals and areas of focus for approval from the school district and release by the State of Colorado's Department of Education.


Oversee the implementation of systems that allow instruction, operations, and school culture to be refined.


North High School

Ritchie Program for School Leaders, Cohort XIV

Principal Resident/Assistant Principal


Responsibilities: 

Coach and Evaluator for Visual Arts, Performing Arts, and Special Education (English and Math) 

Senior Class Administrator

Unified Improvement Plan Online Pilot Coordinator

Secondary School Assessment Leader

Community Partner Programming Liaison

Restorative Practices

Equity Team




Collegiate Prep Academy

Senior Team Lead 

School Team Lead, Culture and Equity

Ohana Step Team Coach

YoungLife Leader



The State of Florida


Office of Mayor Andrew D. Gillum

City of Tallahassee

Program Associate


Facilitated all programming for the Family First Initiative, the signature program focused on early childhood education and resources for families, including: 

  • Planning a week of events focused on initiative outcomes
  • Coordinating citizen-led task forces and planning committees
  • Conducting research and critical analysis for a feasibility study of the Pay for Success Program in partnership with the office of Representative Loranne Ausley and the Institute for Child Success. 


Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University

The College of Education, Office of the Dean

Graduate Assistant


  • Aligned College of Education student and faculty accomplishments with the College of Education's Strategic Goals, University's Strategic Plan, and the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP) Standards. 
  • Coordinated the draft compilation of the faculty handbook 


Florida Gubernatorial Fellows

Cohort XV 

Florida Department of Juvenile Justice 

Office of Youth and Family Advocacy 


Statewide support offered to youth and families through the facilitation of the Resource Hotline, professional development, and planning of focus groups. 


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