Alexandra Waugh

Project Manager, Building Economic Opportunity

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Alexandra Waugh helps manage JFF projects focused on helping low-income adults train for and succeed in jobs with career advancement potential. This work includes a focus on "green" jobs through JFF’s GreenWays initiative. She also works on Accelerating Opportunity: A Breaking Through initiative, which seeks to fundamentally change the way Adult Basic Education is delivered, and to ensure that those states’ policies encourage dramatically improved student outcomes in terms of completing credentials of value in the labor market. 
 


Ms. Waugh has always helped promote the advancement of underrepresented populations. Before JFF, she helped conduct a five-year research project at Simmons College on disabled youths’ transitions into adulthood. She has also served under Massachusetts State Senator Cynthia Creem at the Barbara Lee Family Foundation, an organization dedicated to advancing women’s representation in politics and contemporary art.

Ms. Waugh has a Master’s of Public Policy from Brandeis University and a Bachelor’s in sociology from Simmons College.