Lisa Soricone

Senior Project Manager, Building Economic Opportunity

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Lisa Soricone serves on JFF’s Building Economic Opportunity Group, helping low-skilled adults advance to family-sustaining careers, while enabling employers to build and sustain a productive workforce. Specifically, she will help evaluate the success of programs that help adults succeed in community college: Accelerating Opportunity and the Adult Degree Completion Project.

Before joining JFF, Dr. Soricone was a research and evaluation analyst at Commonwealth Corporation where she evaluated workforce development programs in Massachusetts, including the Workforce Competiveness Trust Fund and the Massachusetts Learn at Work Program. Before that, she served as research associate for the National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy, where she coauthored a series of guides for training adult education practitioners on how to integrate health literacy skill development into ABE/ESOL.

Dr. Soricone has a doctorate in Community Education and Lifelong Learning from Harvard University, a Master’s in International Education (also from Harvard), a degree in literature, linguistics, and French as a foreign language from Université Paul Valery in France, and a Bachelor’s in French and political science from Hobart and William Smith Colleges.