Samantha Alcalá

As Assistant Director of Partnerships and Advocacy, Samantha supports a portfolio of Career Fluency^® partners to strengthen their college and career programming. She has primarily worked in education nonprofits focused on the postsecondary readiness and access of youth of color. This includes roles as a Program Consultant for CARA’s (College Access: Research and Action’s) Youth Leader training, Program Manager for iMentor’s mentoring program, and Teaching Fellow for Citizen Schools’ extended learning day program. Samantha is a Posse alumna who earned her B.S. in Educational Studies and Psychology from Trinity College, and her M.A. in Sociology and Education from Teachers College, Columbia University.