Program and Operations Coordinator
The Institute for College Access & Success, Inc.
Oakland,
CA
Biographical Sketch: Neha serves as the program and operations coordinator at the Institute for College Access & Success. There, she covers a range of education issues centered around college success while also working in operations, including development and strategy. Previously, Neha helped launch a new nonprofit organization focused on increasing college success and upward mobility. Before that, she was a staff economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisers, providing policy advice on early, K-12, and higher education as well as other topics. Neha’s experience also includes senior roles in multiple education related nonprofits, volunteer teaching and mentoring domestically and internationally, conducting education-related economics research at Harvard, and organizing and representing youth in a variety of capacities. She currently serves as vice chair of the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO Youth Working Group. Neha holds an AB in applied mathematics and education and an SM in applied mathematics and economics from Harvard.