EDUCATION QUALITY OUTCOME STANDARDS - Key Persons

Elise Scanlon - Founder

Job Titles:
  • Founder
  • Member of the Board
  • Principal
Elise Scanlon is the founder and principal of a Washington, D.C. based law and consulting practice focused on advising accrediting organizations and higher education institutions on federal higher education policy, state and federal regulation, and quality assurance and improvement.

Gabriel Ben-Jakov

Job Titles:
  • Manager of Strategy and Communications
Gabriel Ben-Jakov is the Manager of Strategy and Communications at EQOS. He has spearheaded EQOS' State Pilot Program and developed new partnerships and initiatives with training providers and aggregator platforms. A dynamic strategist with experience in policy research and education content creation, Gabriel was most recently a Program Associate at Get In The Game, an experiential learning platform designed to provide middle school, high school, and college students with racial equity and social justice education. Kristin Sharp is an experienced civic sector executive and entrepreneur. Prior to joining EQOS, Kristin was a partner at Entangled Solutions. She also co-founded the Shift Commission and launched the ShiftLabs and Work, Workers, and Technology projects at New America, examining the impact of automation and AI on the workforce. Earlier in

Kristin Sharp

Job Titles:
  • Senior Advisor
  • Sector Executive
her career, she had a long stint in technology, innovation, and national security policy in the US Senate, working in senior staff roles for senators and committees on both sides of the political aisle.

Lisette Nieves - President

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
  • President
  • President of the Fund for the City of New York
  • President, Fund for the City of New York and JFF Board Member
Lisette Nieves is the president of the Fund for the City of New York (FCNY), an institution charged with developing and helping to implement innovations in policy, programs, practices, and technologies to improve the functioning of government agencies and nonprofit organizations in New York City and beyond. Key FCNY programs include the Cash Flow Loan Program, the Partnership Program, and the Sloan Public Service Awards. Before joining FCNY, Lisette was the director of educational leadership and policy studies and a full clinical professor at NYU Steinhardt, where she co-led the design and implementation of a doctoral program in educational leadership and innovation and taught organizational theory and behavior and educational policy analysis. Throughout her career of more than 25 years, Lisette has served in a variety of leadership positions in the public and private sectors. She founded Lingo Ventures, served as the Belle Zeller Distinguished Visiting Professor in Public Policy at the City University of New York at Brooklyn College, and was an Obama appointee on the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics.

Michael Horn - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Board
  • Senior Strategist at Guild Education
Michael Horn is a senior strategist at Guild Education and award-winning author of Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns. Michael brings substantive expertise around education innovation, regulation, and accreditation of K-12 and postsecondary institutions.

Stephen Yadzinski

Job Titles:
  • Senior Innovation Officer for JFF
  • Senior Innovation Officer, JFF and Interim Executive Director
Tameshia Bridges Mansfield is vice president for workforce innovation at JFF. She oversees workforce development and future-of-work initiatives with an eye toward innovation and system transformation. Before joining JFF, Tameshia was a program officer at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, where she led the workforce development and job access p Stephen Yadzinski is the senior innovation officer for JFF and the interim executive director for EQOS. In this role, Steve works with JFF leaders and teams to identify new opportunities, establish new partnerships, and transform JFF programs and service lines to meet an evolving and dynamic education and workforce ecosystem, leveraging the fields of technology, innovation, and investment to further our mission. Previously, Steve founded the Innovate+Educate Employment Tech Division in response to the critical need to improve workforce readiness for high-demand jobs in key U.S. industries. Under Steve's leadership, the division grew to include organizational psychologists, data scientists, user interface developers, and others to create leading-edge mobile technologies, assessments, and labor-market insights connecting Americans living at or near poverty with education, training, and quality jobs.

Tameshia Bridges Mansfield - VP

Job Titles:
  • Vice President
  • Vice President for Workforce Innovation at JFF
ortfolio, addressing barriers that workers face in securing meaningful employment. Tameshia is a co-chair of the board of the Clean Slate Initiative and a member of the boards of the Detroit Justice Center and the Chicago Jobs Council. She previously served as co-chair of Workforce Matters, where she was instrumental in the creation of the Racial Equity Framework for Workforce Funders.

Ted Mitchell

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
  • President of the American Council
Michael Horn is a senior strategist at Guild Education and award-winning author of Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns. Michael brings substantive expertise around education innovation, regulation, and accreditation of K-12 and postsecondary institutions. Ted Mitchell is the president of the American Council on Education and brings a wide array of experience and accomplishments from across the higher education sector, as well as a long-standing focus on helping students gain access to postsecondary education and complete their degrees.