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.
My dad's an engineer. My mom was a stay at home mom. I had no business connection whatsoever. So, for me, it was really, the skills I knew I would get there were important. I think the fact that it was private sector making a decent wage were nice perks to it, but I knew I needed some type of gr...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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