California College Guidance Initiative
Tessa De Roy has a diverse range of work experience spanning multiple sectors. Tessa started their career at the ACLU of Southern California as an Assistant to the Executive Director, where they provided administrative support and served as a liaison to various coalitions. Tessa then worked as a Program Associate at the California Community Foundation before joining Strategic Actions for a Just Economy as the Director of Banking Accountability. In this role, they led an advocacy campaign to provide people on public assistance with bank accounts.
Tessa then became a Principal Consultant at Urban Resources, where they worked until 2013. During this time, they also started working as a Senior Program Officer at The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation, focusing on the College Access and Success Initiative.
Their most recent role is as the President of the California College Guidance Initiative. In this position, they oversee the management of California's College and Career Planning Platform, which provides students with tools and information to plan for their education and explore career options.
Tessa De Roy obtained a B.A. in Sociology and Political Science from Sarah Lawrence College between 1987 and 1991. Later, they pursued an M.A. in Urban Planning at UCLA from 1997 to 1999. Finally, Tessa completed an Ed.D. in Educational Leadership at UCLA which began in 2009.
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California College Guidance Initiative
The California College Guidance Initiative (CCGI) smooths the path to college and career for all California students and unites the efforts of the systems and institutions that serve them. CCGI serves as the core of the college application tools in California's newly-established Cradle-to-Career System. Today, our unique, data-informed tools are available to one-in-five CA 6th-12th grade students - a population larger than the entire K-12 systems of 22 U.S. states. Over the next few years, they'll become available to all California students. Through CaliforniaColleges.edu, the state's official college- and career-planning platform, we provide comprehensive college, career, and financial aid information, along with tools that are informed by students' transcript data. These tools are designed to support counselors and help students identify and realize their college goals. Using a combination of data infrastructure, hands-on support, and online curricula, CCGI works to bring together educational systems and create a better academic and vocational future for California students. We do this by streamlining the college application process for students and families, supporting data accuracy and transparency to make sure data errors are resolved before they have negative impacts on students, and providing educators in both K-12 and higher education with the information and tools they need to make informed decisions around admissions, placement, guidance, support services, and financial aid.