Alyse Amato is a New Jersey native who is passionate about improving equity in education and the job market. Alyse is currently the Employer Partnerships Manager at the Marcy Lab School, a rigorous college alternative program designed to prepare young people from underrepresented backgrounds for full-time careers in software engineering. She began her career as a Teach for America Corps Member, where she taught high school math in the New Orleans region. Alyse continued teaching at North Star Academy Washington Park High School, part of the Uncommon Schools charter network. Alyse held a variety of positions while at North Star including a year managing the school's High School 2.0 program, a program designed to expose students to internships and project-based learning. She spent another year managing their alumni career services programming, where worked with Elevate to Even+ to place North Star alumni into internships.