Columbia University

Sample of Consulting Projects

• Zaya Learning Labs

  Area: Education
  Year: 2016

  

  Zaya Learning Labs is an Indian social enterprise committed to addressing the quality of primary education for low-income communities through its technology-enabled “blended learning” model. The venture-backed company currently impacts over 30,000 students across India by providing schools with hardware, software, content, lesson plans, and training and implementation services for their classrooms. The company plans to launch its first direct-to-consumer mobile application to equip children with grade-level skills in English.

  Zaya was interested in entering the Indian educational technology mobile application market to further the impact of its product. To this end, the objective of this project ws to build Zaya’s market entry strategy, which should equip more than 1,000,000 grade 1-3 students in North India with grade-level skills in English through adoption of its mobile application.

• WE ACT

  Area: Environmental Justice
  Year: 2017

  

  WE ACT for Environmental Justice is a Northern Manhattan community-based organization whose
  mission is to build healthy communities by assuring that people of color and/or low-income
  participate meaningfully in the creation of sound and fair environmental health and protection
  policies and practices. As a result of our ongoing work to educate and mobilize the more than
  630,000 residents of Northern Manhattan on environmental issues affecting their quality of life,
  WE ACT has become a leader in the nationwide movement for environmental justice, influencing
  the creation of federal, state and local policies affecting the environment.

  To reach members of the Harlem community more effectively on various environmental justice
  issues, WE ACT is looked to develop a long-term membership model and framework to showcase
  progress. The first objective of this project was to thoroughly understand WE ACT’s existing strategic
  plan and membership contribution system and to provide recommendations on how to structure a
  long-term plan. Secondarily, this project will also identify membership success metrics and create
  a routine method of regularly displaying WE ACT’s progress as an organization to donors,
  members, and policymakers.

• Teach for America

  Area: Education
  Year: 2018

  

  Teach For America (TFA) is a nonprofit organization whose stated mission is to "enlist, develop, and
  mobilize as many as possible of our nation's most promising future leaders to grow and strengthen the
  movement for educational equity and excellence.” The organization aims to accomplish this by recruiting
  and selecting college graduates from top universities around the United States to serve as teachers. The
  selected members, known as "corps members," commit to teaching for at least two years in a public or public
  charter K–12 school in one of the 52 low-income communities that the organization serves.

  The TFA-Bay Area chapter is among one of the most popular the most popular regions with 2855 alumni and
  a corps size of 325. To improve donations and corps interest, the region was looking to expand its PR strategy,
  particularly with growing its social media strategy.

• Cognitive Toybox

  Area: Education
  Year: 2019

  

  Cognitive Toybox co-founders are committed to closing the early achievement gap
  through evidence-based technology solutions.The startup’s mission statement is to help every child start kindergarten ready
  to succeed, as kindergarten scores can be predictive of future successes including high school
  graduation, future earnings, and retirement savings.

  Cognitive ToyBox wanted to get a better understanding of the best go-to-market strategy that can
  optimize impact and scale.
  This was pursued by discovering the best distribution channels in public and private programs and leveraging PIR data to target Headstart programs.