Rachel Pleasants

Senior Project Manager

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Rachel Pleasants is a senior project manager for Breaking Through, JFF’s collaboration with National Council for Workforce Education to create opportunities for adults with little education to prepare for and succeed in college technical programs. She also works on Accelerating Opportunity: A Breaking Through initiative, which seeks to fundamentally change the way Adult Basic Education is delivered in 11 states, and to ensure that those states’ policies encourage dramatically improved student outcomes in terms of completing credentials of value in the labor market. 
 


Before joining JFF, Ms. Pleasants worked in K-12 education as a program administrator and after-school instructor. She also has worked with a number of career development programs for high school students, including the Met School in Providence, Rhode Island, and Just-A-Start in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 
 


Ms. Pleasants has a Master’s in education policy and management from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She has a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts in painting and a Bachelor’s in Spanish from the University of Iowa.