Alison Schmitt is a director in Solutions Design & Delivery at JFF. She helps drive JFF’s place-based approach to inclusive regional economic development in California. Her portfolio includes worker-led approaches to improving job quality, inclusive cluster development, and the inclusion of community-based organizations in regional workforce and economic development initiatives. 

Her skills and areas of expertise include: 

• Inclusive regional economic development 
• Facilitation and collaborative design 
• Job quality 
• Cross-sector partnership development 
• Financial modeling 

Before joining JFF, Schmitt served as the director of financial analysis at ReNEW Schools, a nonprofit charter school network in New Orleans. While at ReNEW, she also served as a college and career counselor for seniors at an alternative high school for over-age, under-credited students. 

Educational background:  

• Bachelor’s degree in economics, University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School 
• Master’s degree in public policy, University of California, Berkeley