Education

Harvard University

B.A., Sociology & Government

2012

Podcasts

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12: What It’s Like to Work in Education Advocacy With Marie Appel, The Commit Partnership [Main T4C Episode]

Marie Appel grew up in a town of 300, in a lower, middle-class family. She was the first in her family to go to college and scored a scholarship of $8,000 for her entire four-year education at Harvard. While at Harvard, Marie earned extra money during various breaks by cleaning..

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109: How to Break Into the Education Field w/ Marie Appel, The Commit Partnership [Espresso Shots]

Career Path

Interview Highlights

“My students were amazing. I learned so much more from them than they probably ever could have learned from me. And it really taught me about the systemic problems in education and where people, a lot of well-meaning people, have gone wrong in making curriculum or policy.”

Best Career Advice

“You have to be your own advocate. No one is advocating for you like you will advocate for yourself… I allowed other people to make decisions about my career path and my future because I thought that I didn’t have power in that situation, but you always have power over yourself. You always have options. Always knowing that you have to look out for number one, even when you’re working in a career where you’re there, because you care about these kids that aren’t even your kids.”

Career Challenge

“I definitely had this kind of crisis of conscience where I looked at my friends around me that were all going into big three consulting firms and knew what type of paychecks they were going to be getting. And so there was a little while where I really questioned my choice towards the end of senior year when I’d already been accepted to TFA.”

Skills

Data Analysis, Teaching, Tableau, Research, Statistics, Higher Education, Political Campaigns, Strategic Planning, Community Outreach, Sharepoint, SQL , Public Speaking, Tutoring

Professional Interests

McKinsey & Company, Google Harvard University, The First Gen Network, DFW Women of Analytics Group, Harvard Varsity Club, Harvard Business School, The University of Texas at Austin