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.”