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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

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

• Built the ed tech platform that became the backbone of the org's transition to online training

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

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

My approach

• Built the ed tech platform from scratch, which served as the backbone of the shift to online-first training

• Re-designed and relaunched Invitation Nation, a peer-to-peer campaign nominating 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 rigorous, sustainable product development processes

The outcome

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

• Extended the model to NYC agencies, deepening Harvest's relationships with its primary customer segment

• Open-sourced the playbook and saw it implemented by cities globally

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

My approach

• Created the event from an idea: a recruiting tool for tech companies that doubled as a way for everyday people to find their way into tech

• Drove the rebuild of the mobile-first platform (novel at the time) with custom RSVP, backend database, and CMS

• Iterated to new audiences: expanded across NYC tech, then applied the same model to agencies (Harvest's primary customer segment)

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

• Open-sourced the playbook so other cities could replicate the model without starting from scratch