About
Bridget provides clients with tailored consulting services to meet their goals, informed by her experience driving impact in philanthropy, nonprofits, and federal and local government. Bridget has a proven ability to ask the right questions, gather key data and information from stakeholders, and provide concrete recommendations that will be actionable. Her support will allow you to orient your mission-driven work in a changing landscape, innovate, and accelerate your impact on the field.
Services
Cherry Strategies provides the following services:
Orient
- Landscape scans
- Policy context assessment
- Stakeholder conversations
Innovate
- Develop new initiatives
- Increase impact of existing programs
- Strategic planning
Accelerate
- Strategic plan implementation
- Funder engagement strategy
- Grant advising
- Monitoring and evaluation frameworks
We can work with you to determine the services that are right for you, with a focus on making sure you achieve your goals, whether that be in the realm of setting strategy, bringing a new idea to life, scaling what works, or refining your work for continuous improvement.
Experience
Bridget previously served as a Program Officer on the Walton Family Foundation’s Education team. She served as special assistant for policy for the DC Office of the State Superintendent of Education. Bridget has held positions at City Year, Inc. and the US Department of Education, where she was a Presidential Management Fellow and served as a program officer for the Race to the Top program. She also served as an Education Pioneers fellow in Washington, DC. Bridget started her career in education as a middle school teacher in CofradÃa, Honduras. She received her Bachelor of Arts in English from Yale University and her Master in Public Affairs from Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs.