Published work
“Manufacturing in rural America: A plan for K–12–industry partnerships,” McKinsey Institute for Economic Mobility, August 2025
“Small towns, massive opportunity: Unlocking rural America’s potential,” McKinsey Institute for Economic Mobility, August 2025
“The upskilling imperative: Required at scale for the future of work,” McKinsey & Company, May 2025
“Flexible work’s enduring appeal affects workers, employers, and real estate,” McKinsey & Company, May 2025
“Who is Rural America?,” McKinsey Institute for Economic Mobility, March 2025
“Transforming public sector hiring with data-enabled talent ‘win rooms’,” McKinsey & Company, July 2023
“Making government an even better place for women to work,” McKinsey & Company, May 2023
“What workers want is changing. That could be good for government,” McKinsey & Company, October 2022
“For many Americans, economic opportunity seems increasingly out of reach,” McKinsey & Company, May 2022
“Stepping up, but risking burnout: Women leaders in the public and social sectors in 2021,” McKinsey & Company, November 2021
“Building the tech talent pipeline,” McKinsey & Company, December 2019
A pivotal moment for the Senior Executive Service: Measures, aspirational practices and stories of success, McKinsey & Company and Partnership for Public Service, June 2016
“What social sector leaders need to succeed,” McKinsey & Company, November 2014
“Building the leadership bench: Developing a talent pipeline for the Senior Executive Service,” (PDF–448 KB), McKinsey & Company and Partnership for Public Service, July 2013
Past experience
National Institutes of Health
AAAS science policy fellow
National Institutes of Health
postdoctoral fellow
Education
Duke University
PhD, biochemistry
North Carolina State University
BS, biochemistry
