A little about Meredith...
Owner and Principal Consultant of AdvancED Consulting, LLC
Accomplished, self-directed non-profit executive with 20+ years of education, management and program development experience ranging in size from local grassroots projects to full scale state-wide high-profile projects. An agile operations leader with a start-up mentality, I support organizations and initiatives that lead to long-term, impactful and sustainable systems change for the benefit of disadvantaged communities throughout California.
Armed with insight, I understand the technology, trends, and best practices currently affecting California’s PK-12 and higher education stakeholders. I am comfortable with ambiguity and moving between projects, I can face uncertainty because risk and change motivates me to evolve and innovate.
With experience managing staff, volunteers, partners, and committees, my core competencies include college and career content and programming, information systems, operations, logistics, event planning, board governance, and project management.
I have a passion for supporting the capacity, success, and professional development of private, public, and nonprofit professionals and organizations that work daily with disadvantaged, underresourced communities. I enjoy working with organizations to better manage, track, and utilize data to make more informed and strategic decisions. I get amped up whenever I improve the effectiveness and efficiencies of programs and professionals so that they can do what they do best - serve communities. The generation that we support today will be the leaders of change tomorrow. This is true not just of youth, but of our education, non-profit, and social enterprise volunteers and professionals who work tirelessly and passionately to give youth the options they deserve.
While I have served in dozens of different paid and volunteer roles, I am most proud of serving as:
Accomplished, self-directed non-profit executive with 20+ years of education, management and program development experience ranging in size from local grassroots projects to full scale state-wide high-profile projects. An agile operations leader with a start-up mentality, I support organizations and initiatives that lead to long-term, impactful and sustainable systems change for the benefit of disadvantaged communities throughout California.
Armed with insight, I understand the technology, trends, and best practices currently affecting California’s PK-12 and higher education stakeholders. I am comfortable with ambiguity and moving between projects, I can face uncertainty because risk and change motivates me to evolve and innovate.
With experience managing staff, volunteers, partners, and committees, my core competencies include college and career content and programming, information systems, operations, logistics, event planning, board governance, and project management.
I have a passion for supporting the capacity, success, and professional development of private, public, and nonprofit professionals and organizations that work daily with disadvantaged, underresourced communities. I enjoy working with organizations to better manage, track, and utilize data to make more informed and strategic decisions. I get amped up whenever I improve the effectiveness and efficiencies of programs and professionals so that they can do what they do best - serve communities. The generation that we support today will be the leaders of change tomorrow. This is true not just of youth, but of our education, non-profit, and social enterprise volunteers and professionals who work tirelessly and passionately to give youth the options they deserve.
While I have served in dozens of different paid and volunteer roles, I am most proud of serving as:
- an inaugural Advisory Council member of the California Medicine Scholars Program from 2024 to the present, a statewide program providing pathways for community college students to become medical professionals such as physicians;
- a Planning Team member of the Black Leadership Kitchen Cabinet of Silicon Valley since 2024;
- a Steering Committee member of the Bay Area K-16 Collaborative since 2022 which coordinates K-16 pathways in East Bay, San Francisco, and San Jose;
- the first full-time employed Executive Director of the Northern California College Promise Coalition (NCCPC) from 2020-2025, a regional fiscally-sponsored nonprofit coordinating hundreds of practitioners across 13 counties from Sonoma to Fresno;
- an Advocacy Fellow, Advisory Task Force member, and Policy Council member of the National College Attainment Network from 2021-2024;
- the inaugural Director of Education Partnerships for Moneythink, from 2020-2022, which managed DecidED, a free tool for students and advisors to compare college costs, financial aid benefits, and other fit factors;
- a Commissioner and Chair of the Santa Clara County Commission on the Status of Women from 2019-2022;
- the founding Director of Operations of the California College Guidance Initiative, from 2013-2018 and then the inaugural Director of Content & Data Management for CaliforniaColleges.edu from 2018-2019, the state's free college and career planning portal used by hundreds of school districts and millions of 6th-12th grade public school students across California;
- a member of the Southern California College Attainment Network (SoCalCAN) from 2009 through 2016 and a Steering Committee member from 2012 to 2016;
- the youngest Executive Director (at 28 years old) of South Central Scholars now called Thrive Scholars, from 2008 to 2013, a nonprofit organization that managed scholarship, alumni association, internship, and mentorship programs;
- the Chairperson of the USA Board of Directors for the Women Development and Earth Foundation (WODEEF) from 2009 to 2013, a women-led nonprofit dedicated to empowering women and children in Cebu and Mindanao in the Philippines; and
- the College Access Brain Trust from 2010 to 2012, a networking and innovation space that connects college access nonprofit executives and managers in Los Angeles to nurture professional development, the sharing of best practices, and cross-organization collaboration.
