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For over a decade, Patrice Berry has cultivated public-private partnerships to design initiatives that continue to help hundreds of students tackle such barriers in their pursuit of postsecondary education and careers. Today, as a FUSE Corps Executive Fellow in Oakland's Office of Mayor Libby Schaaf, she is building a college affordability strategy for the city that emphasizes the importance of cross-sector collaboration, technology and early preparation for diverse postsecondary options. Before joining the Mayor's Office, Patrice was the Director of College Track East Palo Alto, where her team helped grow the 4- ear college acceptance rate to 100%, and the 4- year college matriculation rate to 93%. Prior to College Track, she held leadership roles at Upward Bound, the Netter Center for Community Partnerships, and Leaders of Change, a social entrepreneurship program that she co-founded that helps prepare first generation and low-income students for success in college and in their careers. Patrice earned her BA in political science from Swarthmore College and holds an MEd from the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education, where she was a Woodrow Wilson-Rockefeller Brothers Fund fellow. She serves on the Board for the Prison University Project and is a member of NationSwell Council. "When tech is student-inspired and data-driven, it looks like Moneythink," Patrice stated. "And what we get is sound information and guidance placed directly in the hands of young adults - where they can truly own it; this is the ultimate empowerment. As someone for whom education access is so deeply personal, I'm thrilled to join the Moneythink movement as a board member and I'm excited to get to work."