Angie Kamath is Executive Director of Per Scholas.
Prior to joining Per Scholas in March 2013, Angie spent 7 years working at the NYC Department of Small Business Services, overseeing the City's Workforce1 Career Center system. During her tenure in the Bloomberg administration she oversaw the growth of the system from 6 Career Centers to 15 throughout the five boroughs serving over 120,000 individuals per year and placing over 25,000 in employment annually. She also implemented several successful Center for Economic Opportunity initiatives focused on improving the income and advancement prospects for working poor New Yorkers, including nationally recognized Workforce1 Sector Career Centers in healthcare and transportation.
Before working in City government, Angie was the Executive Director of StreetWise Partners, a community organization focused on training and job placement to help low income individuals succeed in the workplace. In this role she worked directly with Per Scholas on advancement and mentoring initiatives.
Angie Kamath holds a B.S. in Business Management from Cornell University and a Master's in Public Policy from Harvard University.
Read the Happiness Project. Honestly, it got me through. A real quick anecdote from my government job. The last year and a half, there was one of the really big organizations that we invested in, basically defrauded the government, taxpayer dollars. And the last year and half was stuffed with fe...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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