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The outcome

• Scaled to become one of the nation's most robust benefits cliff intervention programs

• Testified before U.S. House Rules Committee

• Presented program outcomes at Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

• Established partnerships with multiple state agencies and Chambers of Commerce

• Supported by Blue Ridge Labs/Robin Hood Foundation, Acumen, Access Ventures, The Workers Lab, Financial Solutions Lab at the Financial Health Network, and Google for Startups

• One of only 2 surviving organizations from a 20+ member cohort

My approach

Designed a multi-layered intervention system:

• Built a benefits cliff calculator enabling workers to model earning scenarios and understand their specific cliff risks

• Created a coach training program to scale human support nationwide, and provide workers real context for tricky decision-making processes they were navigating for career and finances

• Piloted employer-based financial solutions with multi-year partnerships to test intervention models

• Established a product-to-policy pipeline, using program data to inform federal and state policy recommendations

Rather than choosing between tech or human support, policy or product, we built an integrated system recognizing that benefits cliffs require solutions across all these domains.

The outcome

• Scaled training programs nationally, reaching thousands more women while reducing per-trainee costs

• Created infrastructure that supported the organization's growth through subsequent election cycles

My approach

• Re-designed and launched Invitation Nation, a peer-to-peer platform encouraging women to run for office

• Rebuilt compromised systems and established security infrastructure and QA processes

• Implemented payments gateway, donations flow, and merchandise sales to diversify revenue

• Built lean external tech team and established sustainable product development processes

• Brought operational rigor to product development and external communications

The outcome

• Grew to biannual event with hundreds of participating companies and thousands of attendees

• Created alternate event for design studios and designers, based on original event success

• Became foundational community-building infrastructure for NYC tech ecosystem during critical growth years

• Opensourced the idea and created plug-and-play handbook implemented in numerous other cities around the globe

My approach

• Built a mobile-first platform (novel at the time) with custom RSVP functionality, backend database, and user-facing CMS

• Managed full product lifecycle from QA through public rollout

• Created operational infrastructure to coordinate hundreds of companies across NYC simultaneously