Ann is a contractor with UPD Consulting and also has her own consultancy, Shift Forward Consulting LLC. At UPD she works on economic mobility and education projects, helping public sector and foundation clients identify, navigate, and sustain large change initiatives. Her work centers on how we can better use data to improve people’s lives while focusing on the human-side of programmatic and organizational change.

Projects include designing the Home for Good Pilot (Wells Fargo Foundation) in partnership with the Urban League of Philadelphia, creating  a school-centered housing model for the City of Baltimore, developing a national set of data use cases to support economic mobility, a year-long organization-wide transformation project with the New Mexico Public Education Department’s IT division, and continuous improvement implementation for nine turnaround schools in Virginia. Ann is also the instructor of the University of California Berkeley’s online course Data Governance for Public Decision Making.

Prior to joining UPD, Ann worked for the City Administrator of the District of Columbia implementing strategic initiatives across agencies, and she led performance improvement projects for DC’s Office of the State Superintendent of Education. She also worked for the U.S. Department of Agriculture on their low-income nutrition programs.

Ann holds a Master of Public Policy from the Goldman School at the University of California at Berkeley and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Oberlin College