Mina works as an independent consultant and as an expert with the CatalystEd network. In the past, she was an associate, project manager, and director at several mission-driven strategy consulting groups including Safal Partners, The Center for What Works, and Blue Garnet.
Mina has been a featured speaker at the Texas Nonprofit Summit, and is a Board Member for a growing social enterprise, Little Helping Hands. Mina has earned an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, where she majored in finance and received the “top student” award in the nonprofit/public management program. She has a BA with honors from Princeton University. She has also completed extensive coursework in program evaluation and statistics at the University of Texas, Austin, where she worked with a team to evaluate nationally representative longitudinal data related to in-school versus out-of-school learning rates (e.g. summer “setback”) among different student groups. Mina is able to draw from both her experience as a management consultant and her technical training in statistics to work with organizations to help them interpret research in their field, and to design practical metrics which are oriented towards organizational learning rather than compliance.
Mina has worked with dozens of organizations ranging in size from a three-person initiative to keep Cambodian arts traditions alive to the U.S. Department of Education. She has worked with capacity building organizations and direct providers in the fields of youth services, education, workforce development, community economic development, domestic violence, affordable housing, volunteerism, and arts management. Recent clients and cases include: Houston Rocks (a multi-sector initiative, supported by numerous local and national funders, to open 50 new high-quality schools in the Houston area over 5 years), Families Empowered, Houston Endowment, and the New York Road Runners youth services.