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UnicoverFounding Advisor: Strategy and Partnerships
Nov. 2025
BetterMyndDirector of Strategic Partnerships
Jun. 2024 - Jun. 2025Boston, Massachusetts, United StatesBetterMynd partners with colleges and universities to extend the impact of their counseling services through flexible online services including individual therapy, psychiatry, and 24/7 crisis and support line. Our mission is rooted in the personal mental health journey of our founder, Cody Semrau, who experienced a mental health crisis as a college student and was inspired to help students like himself have greater access to stigma-free, individualized mental health care. Our team is guided by core values that reflect our dedication to student wellbeing and deep collaboration with our campus partners: Care Deeply Assume the Best in Others and Ourselves Demonstrate Ownership Seek Continuous Growth Recognize and Respect our Differences
Mentor CollectiveSenior Partnerships Director
Aug. 2019 - Jun. 2024United StatesMentor Collective offers a one-of-a-kind platform —driven by research, technology, and a team of mentorship experts—that brings the most effective mentoring models into a scalable, campus-wide system. Founded in 2014, Mentor Collective has delivered 700+ unique mentorship programs, established 100+ institutional partnerships and formed 100,000 mentoring relationships. As an impact-first investment of the Lumina Foundation, Mentor Collective partners with forward-thinking institutions that are committed to equity, inclusion, and relationship-centered education. https://www.linkedin.com/company/mentorcollective
Out TeachNational Director of Education
Jul. 2016 - Aug. 2019Washington D.C. Metro AreaThe Director, Teacher Training, Curriculum and Evaluation is the instructional leader in the Out Teach organization. The Director is responsible for creating, building and improving structures that support all aspects of teacher training, curriculum development and evaluation. This role ensures that the Out Teach program is implemented nationally with fidelity and consistency, ensuring the greatest impact. The Director, Training, Curriculum and Evaluation is responsible for using current research to create, build and improve structures to lead a best in class teacher training program that impacts teacher effectiveness, student engagement, and academic achievement using experiential learning. In addition, the Director works with organization leadership to help determine strategy for impact and growth, maximizing instructional impact, with the goal of transforming education in our partner schools.
National Science Teachers AssociationNGSS@NSTA Curator and Advisory Board Member
Sep. 2014 - May. 2016Arlington,VAIn this role I worked with NSTA to vet NGSS aligned resources to appear on the NGSS @ NSTA Hub. In addition, I was appointed to serve a two-year term on the NGSS Advisory Board which provides implementation and professional development guidance around NGSS at the national level.
National Council on Teacher QualityChair, Teacher Advisory Group
Aug. 2013 - Aug. 2014Washington,DCThe Teacher Advisory Group (TAG) was formed in 2013 to support NCTQ in its mission by providing consistent and meaningful teacher voice to our work. Teacher Advisors contribute crucial perspectives to the work that NCTQ does, helping to bridge the gap between policy and practice. Members of the TAG hail from diverse backgrounds and varied experiences and all have one thing in common: their passion to improve the educational landscape of their districts, states, and the nation.
District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS)STEM Teacher
Jun. 2010 - Jun. 2016Washington, DCThink Tank is a unique elementary STEM program based specifically on a combination of Habits of Mind and Multiple Intelligence theory. Through Next Generation Science Standards based units and programs, students explicitly develop thinking and problem solving skills. In addition, the program serves all students in the school starting at preschool. Every students age 3 through 5th grade takes part in Think Tank every week. The other parts of the program are the partnerships it allows. From Jr. Beekeeping to Environmental Engineering, Engineering is Elementary to Project Lead the Way, the classroom provides a place to bring in enriching curricula.
District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS)Teacher/Instructional Coach
Jul. 2002 - Jun. 2010
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