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Brooke Fincke
Ed.M. HE
Brooke Fincke is the College Counselor at City on a Hill Charter Public High
School in Roxbury, MA. Brooke’s primary responsibilities include counseling
students on an expansive range of post-secondary possibilities, assisting them
with their college application and financial aid processes, and teaching a
course that emphasizes a connection between school and career; helping students
find great value in continuing their education at the post secondary level.
Brooke is also one of the founding members of the Boston Charter School Consortium
and serves on the Massachusetts Education Financing Authority (MEFA) Guidance
Advisory Board. Brooke’s interest in closing the achievement gap began
with her work as the Assistant Director of Admission at Lake Forest College.
It was her work there and interest in issues of college access and affordability
for traditionally underrepresented students that brought her to the Higher
Education program at HGSE. “At Harvard, I gained valuable insight from
my professors while taking courses exploring the economics of higher education,
career development education, and the legal and ethical issues surrounding
race-based recruitment and retention programs. I was able to apply my coursework
to two internships; serving as an Education Advisor at the TERI College Access
Center and as a College Coach at the Parkway Academy for Technology and Health
through Harvard’s COACH program.”
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