Jennifer Davis Carey

Jennifer is the founding Executive Director of the Worcester Education Collaborative. Jennifer received her Master’s and Doctoral degrees from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and her Bachelor’s degree from Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges. In 1998 she served as Special Assistant to Governor Paul Cellucci of Massachusetts, and a year later she became Director of the Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulations under Governor Jane Swift. Dr. Carey served in Governor Mitt Romney’s and briefly in Governor Deval Patrick’s administrations as Secretary of the Executive Office of Elder Affairs.

From 2007 until 2009, she oversaw the development of education and training solutions at Commonwealth Medicine, a division of University of Massachusetts Medical School. Before joining Massachusetts state government, Dr. Carey worked at Ohio University, Harvard University and at Bancroft School, a independent K-12 school in Worcester. Dr. Carey is also the founding director of the Initiative for Engaged Citizenship, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that provides educational workshops about effective, meaningful participation in the public policy processes of the local, state and federal governments.

Julia Kilgore

Julia is a graduate of Assumption College with concentrated studies in Sociology, Social Policy, and Community Service Learning. In addition, she holds a master’s degree from New York University’s Wagner School of Public Service. Julia comes to us with extensive experience in the non-profit sector with a particular focus in out-of-school learning gathered from her work with Boston After School and Beyond and African Community Education (ACE).

Emily Dodge

Emily Dodge is the Deputy Director at Worcester Education Collaborative. In this role, Emily oversees the Woo-Labs Initiative, a network of community partners committed to elevating and enhancing out-of-school time learning. Previously, Emily was the Measurement and Improvement Manager at Boston After School and Beyond, where she helped hundreds of out-of-school-time organizations leverage data to catalyze program quality improvement and student skill development. Emily began her career in education as a middle school math teacher at Boston Preparatory Charter Public School. Emily holds a bachelor of arts in Psychology from Middlebury College and a master’s degree in Education Policy and Management from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.