Jason Quiara

Senior Project Manager

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Jason Quiara is a senior project manager for state policy development and advocacy. He works on supporting new education pathways that combine high school and college experiences, such as early college high schools and comprehensive dual enrollment programs. Mr. Quiara’s work focuses on studying and advising on state policies to scale up and sustain college-readiness strategies, particularly those that feature college-level coursework in high school.

Mr. Quiara comes to JFF from the New England Board of Higher Education, where he served as director of policy and research and directed the College Ready New England Initiative. With lead support from the Nellie Mae Education Foundation, the initiative aimed to improve state policies and promote programs that increase educational attainment and college-readiness for underserved students across New England. He began at the board as a policy fellow while completing his Master’s in education policy and management from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Mr. Quiara’s passion for working in the field of education was shaped largely by interactions with low-income youth while serving as a residential counselor with Boys Hope Girls Hope of Southern California. With BHGH, he helped mentor and supervise two households of scholars toward the goal of completing high school and attending college.

Mr. Quiara also holds Bachelor’s degrees in history and philosophy from Boston College.