Lili Allen
Program Director
Lili Allen is a program director on JFF's Back on Track team, where she helps build quality pathways to college-ready graduation for struggling students and out-of-school youth. She convenes a leadership network of communities (Boston, Chicago, New York City, Philadelphia, and Portland, Oregon) that are national frontrunners in scaling up options for youth who have fallen off track to graduation, helping them to build new schools for this population, and improve existing ones. She also provides technical assistance to cross-sector partnerships in cities that are at the front end of analyzing data on off-track and out-of-school youth, and creating schools that respond to that need.
Prior to JFF, Ms. Allen spent 15 years building collaborative programs between schools and community partners on behalf of urban youth. She holds a Master’s in Education from Harvard University.
Publications
- From Remediation to Acceleration: Early Lessons from Two Philadelphia Back on Track Schools
- Back on Track to College: A Texas School District Leverages State Policy to Put Dropouts on the Path to Success
- Mobilizing a Cross-Sector Collaborative for Systemic Change: Lessons from Project U-Turn, Philadelphia’s Campaign to Reduce the Dropout Rate
- Leveraging Postsecondary Partners to Build a College-Going Culture: Tools for High School/Postsecondary Partnerships
- Building a Culture of Evidence in Community Colleges: Lessons from Exemplary Institutions
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