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 a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Middlebury College, Emily is also a newly minted alumna of the Harvard Graduate School of Education where she studied education policy and management.  Her previous work includes being a Measurement and Improvement Manager at Boston After School and Beyond, where she helped out-of-school-time organizations leverage data to catalyze program quality improvement and student skill development. Prior to that, Emily taught middle school math at a Boston charter school. Emily will be an integral part of our all-hands-on-deck organization, with a primary focus on supporting and developing Woo-Labs.