Critical ingredients of worker advancement include:

• Supportive supervisors
• Help navigating career plans
• Access to supportive services & training and education
• External factors like job quality and societal context

Generative AI has and will change the content of many jobs. I think it will also make critical thinking skills and work-based learning even more relevant to a given job.

Overlapping themes across my projects:

• Partnering with industry representatives & ongoing networking
• Work-based learning
• Stackable credentials

My work in this area includes a research brief on pre-apprenticeship, ticket-to-work, and an evaluation of a program designed to educate employers about hiring people with autism.

My published research and evaluation work spanning apprenticeship, worker advancement, disability and work, and community college workforce programs.

I built an interactive data dashboard that uses AI to generate insights about program outcomes and performance metrics.