About MDRC
Walker is a resource management analyst in MDRC’s Postsecondary Education policy area. They help manage several projects aimed at improving academic achievement and completion for low-income community college students, including Scaling up College Completion Efforts for Student Success (SUCCESS) and the Replication of CUNY’s Accelerated Study in Associate Programs (ASAP). Prior to joining MDRC, Walker worked with the ACLU’s National Security Project and as a special assistant to the Director of the Center for Democracy. Walker previously held roles with the Legal Aid Society, the Center for Court Innovation, and the Vera Institute of Justice’s Center on Sentencing and Corrections as an Arthur Liman Summer Fellow. They graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Barnard College of Columbia University in political science and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies.
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Under the federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security ( CARES ) Act of 2020, Congress created the Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund ( HEERF ) as the first-ever federal emergency aid program in higher education.
MDRC , in collaboration with the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators and the Student Affairs Administrators in...
Colleen Sommo, Alexander Mayer, Alyssa Ratledge, Michelle Ware, Osvaldo Avila, Katie Beal, Melissa Wavelet, Leigh Parise, Kriti Singh, Colin Hill, Sienna Walker, Austin Slaughter, Hannah DalportoMDRC ’s Scaling Up College Completion Efforts for Student Success ( SUCCESS ) seeks to improve graduation rates for traditionally underserved students at two- and four-year colleges, by helping states and institutions align their resources with evidence-driven practices. SUCCESS combines components from multiple programs that have proven themselves to be...
Colleen Sommo, Michael J. Weiss, Michelle Ware, Melissa Boynton, Michelle S. Manno, Alyssa Ratledge, Rebekah O'Donoghue, Sienna Walker, Camielle HeadlamWhile the U.S. has made strides in increasing college access among low-income students, college completion has remained low. Graduation rates are particularly stagnant among our nation’s community colleges, which enroll a large number of low-income and nontraditional college students. For example, only 20 percent of full-time, first-time degree-seeking students at...