Jennifer Deng-Pickett, Vice President

Jennifer Deng-Pickett is a vice president at Collaborative. Her expertise includes facilitation, training, strategic planning, and partnership and resource development. She works with clients to build the capacity of community members to be the leaders, facilitators and conveners of community discussions related to advancing the quality of life and creating innovative community-driven solutions for public education, youth, families and communities.

At Collaborative, she works with United Way Worldwide, the National Academy Foundation (a secondary school reform effort) and has helped to spearhead the development of community-based organizations to support public education issues. She has successfully led teams working to secure government funding, as in her experience in writing the Denver Public School’s Investing in Innovation grant application that won $25 million over five years from the U.S. Department of Education. Deng-Pickett recently created an engagement and communications framework to help communities around the world think about community engagement in strategic alignment with organizational goals.

Deng-Pickett joined Collaborative after years of working in the nonprofit sector, most recently as the Director of the D.C. Language Access Coalition, a Washington, D.C. organization that monitors civil rights compliance for non-English speaking immigrants in D.C. At the D.C. Language Access Coalition, Deng-Pickett provided executive leadership to an organization engaged in policy advocacy, grassroots organizing, facilitation, foundation fundraising and leadership development. Her leadership was exemplified in promoting and strengthening collaboration, and co-creating and executing strategic vision among diverse stakeholders.