Measurable Impact 2017

JaNay will be speaking in the session “Social Determinants of Economic Security” at Measurable Impact on November 9th at 10:15am.

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Dr. JaNay Queen Nazaire is a leader, collaborator, and bridge-builder with a fierce belief in the right of all people to live their best possible life. She has rich past experience working on outcomes for children and families in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors; as well as in academia, teaching Leadership in Public Policy. Her work has contributed to her passion for harnessing cross-sector collaboration to guide leaders of U.S. cities as they advocate for those people who have been disproportionately left out and systematically denied of economic opportunity. Focused on results in all that she does, JaNay views equity challenges in cities as exciting opportunities to re-examine the impact we can create for the country’s most marginalized communities.

In June 2015, JaNay Queen Nazaire joined Living Cities as Associate Director of Collective Impact. JaNay works to build communities’ capacities to align interests, leverage resources and adopt behaviors that enable them to improve the conditiwell-beingl being for traditionally marginalized communities.

In JaNay’s experience as a Senior Consultant at Clear Impact, she provided strategic consultation, facilitation, and training to public and nonprofit leaders employing collaborative strategies to affect positive community change. JaNay facilitated collaborations and conducted workshops in collaborative decision making for leaders from hundreds of communities. As one of her chief projects, JaNay focused on the use of data to design and implement innovative placed-based solutions in the Pre-Kindergarten through career pipeline. JaNay served as Clear Impact’s lead consultant on national educational initiatives, including Promise Neighborhoods, President Obama’s signature educational program modeled after the Harlem Children’s Zone, and the Campaign for Grade Level Reading, supported by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. JaNay also led work with AECF’s Research, Evaluation and Learning Unit (REAL) to expand the bench to graduate students and professionals of color in the human services field. The goal work was to build their capacity to adopt and implement performance management practices in their human service agencies.

Prior to joining RLG, JaNay was a member of the University of Maryland School of Public Policy (MSPP). There, she served as a Project Manager for leaders in the United States Virgin Islands, who worked to improve the conditions of health and education for children and families. She also provided project management for the UMD Leadership Technical Assistance Team in their partnership with Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q), a national Robert Wood Johnson Foundation initiative with the sole purpose of improving healthcare quality and reducing disparities. Finally, while at the University of Maryland, JaNay also served as a fiscal manager, where she developed and managed proposals, contracts, and budgets for several of MSPP’s public leadership programs.

JaNay’s work is inspired by her graduate studies in Education Policy and Leadership from the University of Maryland College Park, where she focused on the adaptive challenges of collaborative leaders in public-private partnerships. In addition to strategic consultation, facilitation, and training, JaNay served as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy where she taught Leading to Get Results. JaNay is a trained facilitator and certified to administer and interpret the Myers-Briggs Personality Type Indicator (MBTI). Using these skills, JaNay facilitates team building and leadership training to leaders seeking to enhance their ability to work together effectively and provide excellent service to customers.

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