About Us
How We Support Client Work
Our core team leads strategy, recruitment architecture, organizational design, partnerships, and messaging. When a project calls for deeper expertise, we draw from a trusted expert network across data systems, educator preparation, early childhood, special education, curriculum design, equity, and workforce development.
We work with school districts, educator preparation programs, teacher residencies, alternative certification providers, Grow Your Own initiatives, service-to-teaching pathways, workforce partners, and multi-partner recruitment initiatives.
Meet the Core Team
Christina Hall, JD, M.Ed.
Strategy, Organizational Effectiveness, Scaling and Growth, Talent Development & Partnerships
Partner
Christina co-founded Urban Teachers (renamed City Teaching Alliance in 2023) and helped grow the program into a multi-region national model for educator preparation. Her work spans strategic planning, performance management, partnership development, governance, and organizational growth.
At FractionalED Partners, Christina helps clients strengthen the operating structures behind recruitment and educator pathway work, including governance models, advocacy networks, growth strategies, and systems for sustainable scale.
How Christina supports client work:
Christina helps organizations move from promising ideas to durable institutions, with the strategy, structure, and leadership alignment needed to sustain growth.
Kerry Whitacre, EdD, PMP
Talent Development, Recruiting, Marketing & Partnerships (Head of Talent/Growth)
Partner
Kerry brings more than 30 years of experience across education, state government, and nonprofit leadership. As a former leader at Urban Teachers, she helped scale the program’s recruitment and human capital systems to national reach.
At FractionalED Partners, Kerry focuses on recruitment architecture, talent systems, marketing, partnerships, and stakeholder engagement that help clients build stronger educator pipelines.
How Kerry supports client work:
Kerry helps teams build the systems, partnerships, and recruitment routines that turn candidate interest into stronger, more reliable educator pipelines.
Our Expert Network:
More Than a Team
Together, our core team connects recruitment strategy, operating systems, messaging, partnerships, and creative execution so clients can move from scattered recruitment activity to a clearer, more consistent candidate experience.
Jacqueline Greer
Jacqueline Greer brings over two decades of experience in education leadership, talent strategy, and organizational development across national nonprofits and school systems.
At FractionalED Partners, Jacqueline focuses on leadership development and impact-driven strategy. Leveraging her experience as a founding Executive Director and Chief Program Officer, she helps organizations design sustainable growth strategies and build systems that recruit and retain diverse educator talent at scale.
How Jacqueline supports client work: Jacqueline helps teams design equity-centered talent systems and leadership practices that move organizations from vision to sustainable, high-impact implementation.
Dionn Kumpe
Dionne brings decades of experience in strategic communications, campaign development, and messaging across public, private, and nonprofit sectors. She also serves as an adjunct instructor at Virginia Commonwealth University’s Richard T. Robertson School of Communication.
At FractionalED Partners, Dionne develops brand positioning, Employer Value Proposition strategy, recruitment marketing, and candidate engagement strategies that help education organizations communicate more clearly and move candidates from interest to action.
How Dionne supports client work:
Dionne helps teams create candidate communications that build clarity, confidence, and follow-through.
Mariah Kumpe
Mariah brings strong design judgment, sharp attention to detail, and a strategic creative lens to brand identity, visual strategy, and campaign development. She holds a degree in strategic and creative advertising with a minor in psychology, and developed FractionalED’s logo and brand identity.
At FractionalED Partners, Mariah develops visual strategy, brand identity systems, and recruitment creative that help educator preparation organizations and school districts communicate with candidates in clear, credible, and visually compelling ways.
How Mariah supports client work:
Mariah helps organizations turn recruitment strategy into clean, polished, audience-aware creative that strengthens how candidates see, understand, and respond to them.
Marlene Megos
Marlene brings over three decades of experience in district leadership, educator preparation, and workforce development across public school systems and alternative pathways.
At Equate Education, Marlene focuses on program sustainability and strategic growth. Leveraging her experience as a founder and the co-creator of the Connecticut Teacher Residency Program, she helps organizations secure major funding pipelines and build sustainable pathways that have successfully placed over 120 new educators of color.
How Marlene supports client work: Marlene helps teams design sustainable workforce models and diverse educator pipelines that move organizations from initial funding to long-term, high-yield placement systems.
Amber Woodruff
Amber brings over 15 years of experience in education strategy, curriculum design, and equity advocacy across residency models and alternative teacher pathways.
At FractionalED Partners, Amber focuses on program design and strategic innovation. Leveraging her experience leading curriculum and assessments for the Capital Teaching Residency at KIPP DC, she helps organizations launch targeted retention initiatives and build robust apprenticeship frameworks that measurably increase Black teacher retention.
How Amber supports client work: Amber helps teams design innovative residency structures and culturally responsive retention initiatives that move organizations from traditional staffing models to equitable, high-retention educator pipelines.
Roxanne White
Roxanne brings three decades of experience in academic leadership, curriculum development, and professional learning across national school reform initiatives and teacher preparation programs.
At FractionalED Partners, Roxanne focuses on academic strategy and instructional excellence. Leveraging her experience as Chief Academic Officer for City Teaching Alliance and a National Fellow for the Institute for Learning, she helps organizations design high-quality training frameworks and build robust professional development systems that elevate teacher practice and student achievement.
How Roxanne supports client work: Roxanne helps teams design rigorous academic frameworks and professional learning models that move organizations from instructional vision to scalable, high-impact teacher preparation and practice.