Grace

Grace began her public service journey with AmeriCorps through City Year. She served at one of Columbus City Schools along with 12 others. Their focus was to build rapport with students and help teachers move off-track students to on-track through push-in/pull-out interventions. After City Year, she continued her work in education at a local charter school. There, she built the school’s data infrastructure through data collection consolidation, dashboards creation, and automated reports that were used in BLTs and TBTs. Fundamentally, the goal was to move teachers, administrators, and support staff from spending too much time collecting and organizing data to having impactful data-driven conversations.

During her years in public service, she supports the Teaching and Learning department by streamlining the districts' important data. For example, she built internal websites where admin can find GStudio, Tableau, and Excel dashboards that answer state and district key performance indicators (KPIs). She also performs data analyses using student state data, attendance, and course performance to propose logical, achievable goals, as well as, identify avenues of improvement. Lastly, she supports state compliance requirements by ensuring timely, accurate, and secure state test data collection by supporting EMIS Coordinators (Education management information systems).

Grace graduated from the Ohio State University with B.S. in Biochemistry and obtained her Master’s in Data Analytics with a specialization in Cybersecurity from Colorado State University-Global. When she’s not nerding out about data, she loves to listen to audiobooks and economic podcasts, propagate succulents, and bother her cats. Though she loves her hobbies, her ultimate life goal is that one day, all districts have the data architecture they need to drive student achievement.