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 K-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.
Additional experience includes:
I participated as a member of the Southern California College Access Network (SoCalCAN) from 2009 through 2016. From 2012 to 2016 I served as a member of the Steering Committee.
I was an American Association of University Women (AAUW) Fellow. I completed my Master of Business Administration at California State University, Long Beach and my Bachelor of Arts in English at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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 K-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.
Additional experience includes:
- served as the Founding Director of Operations of a $7.5M budget California statewide non-profit, the California College Guidance Initiative, from 2013-2018.
- served as the Director of Content & Data Management for CaliforniaColleges.edu in 2018 which is used by over 250 school districts serving over 1.5 million 6th-12th grade public school students across California (as of 4/1/2024).
- served as the Executive Director of a $1.3M budget non-profit in Los Angeles, South Central Scholars now called Thrive Scholars, from 2008 to 2013.
- served as 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 rural areas of the Philippines.
- founded 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.
I participated as a member of the Southern California College Access Network (SoCalCAN) from 2009 through 2016. From 2012 to 2016 I served as a member of the Steering Committee.
I was an American Association of University Women (AAUW) Fellow. I completed my Master of Business Administration at California State University, Long Beach and my Bachelor of Arts in English at the University of California, Los Angeles.
