Megan Starkey

Project Manager, Building Economic Opportunity

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Megan Starkey is a project manager with JFF’s Building Economic Opportunity Group, devoted to projects that help low-skilled adults advance to family-sustaining careers while enabling employers to build and sustain a productive workforce. She focuses on the National Fund for Workforce Solutions, which supports local funding collaboratives investing in workforce partnerships to recruit, train, place, retain, and advance new and incumbent workers in key industry sectors.

Before JFF, she coordinated policy, advocacy, and communications at the New York City Charter School Center. She conducted research and advocacy on behalf of the city’s charter schools and managed the Charter Center’s rebranding. She has also written a case study on the effect of extended learning time programs in the Miami Dade County school district, co-taught fifth- and sixth-grade Spanish, and assisted in recruiting colleges and universities to participate in a collaborative focused on improving satisfaction among tenure-track faculty.

Ms. Starkey has a Master’s in education policy and management from Harvard University and a Bachelor’s in political science and Spanish from Middlebury College.