Training Provider Community of Practice
The Social Finance Institute and Opportunity Insights have convened an invitation-only Community of Practice to foster peer learning and collaboration among training providers participating in a five-year research partnership to measure the economic impacts of workforce training programs.
About the Community of Practice
This page is your go-to resource for Community of Practice (CoP) updates. Check back here for meeting dates and agendas, recordings and notes from past sessions, readings and research, and other materials shared by the Social Finance Institute and Opportunity Insights (OI) teams.
Please note: This page will be updated periodically to share new materials and learnings from the Community of Practice meetings.
CoP members
Get to know your fellow CoP members — senior leaders from community colleges, non-profit training programs, and workforce intermediaries across the country:
- Guilherme Barros | Director, Strategic Partnerships, Pursuit
- Thomas Benjamin | Vice President, Institutional Research, Data Analytics, & Campus Technologies, Lorain County Community College
- Michael Bettersworth | Vice Chancellor, Chief Innovation Officer, Texas State Technical College
- Lisa Countryman-Quiroz | CEO, JVS
- Heidi Erpelding-Welch | Chief Program Officer, Tech Impact
- Richard Froeschle | Senior Labor Market Economist, Texas State Technical College
- Dr. Stephen Griffin | VP, Chief Learning Officer, Cuyahoga Community College
- Tamara Johnson | Chief Operating Officer, Per Scholas
- Yana Kusayeva | Director of Evaluation and Impact, JVS
- Cynthia Lopez | Director of Program Integration, CrossPurpose
- Dr. David Mahan | Executive Director, Research Institute, Dallas College
- Jessica Marcus | Director, Research & Evaluation, Year Up
- Francisco Martinez | President & CEO, Project QUEST
- Leslie McKay | Director of Development, ActivateWork
- Kim Mitchell | Vice President, Program Strategy, NPower
- Amelia Nickerson | CEO, First Step Staffing
- Brenda Pearson | Vice President, Development, CrossPurpose
- Josh Ryken | Senior Director, Government Affairs, CrossPurpose
- Martin Schwartz | President, Vehicles for Change
- Dr. Angelica Thompson | Vice President, Research & Evaluation, Per Scholas
- Dr. Marisa Vernon White | VP, Enrollment Management & Student Services, Lorain County Community College
- Dr. Lir Wang | Director of Impact, JobTrain
- Matthew Woodruff | Director, Business Operations, PowerCorpsPHL
Project Staff
Social Finance Institute
- Karen Anderson | Managing Director
- Thomas Coen | Data Analytics & Evaluation Director
- Jacob Fahringer | Data Analytics Associate Director
- Carl Lennartson | Data Analytics Associate
- David Socolow | Head of Policy
Opportunity Insights
- Raj Chetty | Faculty Director, Harvard University
- Jamie Fogel | Research Scientist
- Lawrence Katz | Faculty Co-Director, Harvard University
- Nicola Miragliuolo | Special Projects Manager
- Sarah Oppenheimer | Executive Director