Among my responsibilities was setting up the Grantee UX Lab to help orgs make the most of their sub-grants. The plan was to establish qualitative feedback loops for identifying emerging research & comm needs & then develop workshops, educational programming, & support systems to address them. (4/6)

The remaining $12M was to go directly to Fordham to build up the infrastructure necessary to distribute all this money and support grantees in project implementation. Having first been part of the faculty writing team, I then joined the funded program’s 4-person faculty leadership team. (3/6)

The 2 grants amounting to $60M were for a grantmaker program where $48M would be re-granted to hundreds of community-based orgs in NY, NJ, PR, & Virgin Islands. This was designed to give local groups & small communities the opportunity to receive federal funding they normally have no shot at. (2/6)