Winona Nash

Winona Nash is a Program Manager at Educational Results Partnership. Winona has also worked as a Teaching Fellow and a Trust & Safety Program Manager at Google.

Nash pursued professional development and mentorship while exploring (and ultimately declining) the career transition from tech to public education. During their time as a Teaching Fellow, they apprentice taught 7th grade science, attended seminars on modern instruction practices, and took prerequisite classes for teaching credential programs.

At Google, Nash was a Trust & Safety Program Manager. In this role, they had project management ownership for policy enforcement impacting over a billion Google users, supporting products such as GMail, Google Maps, Photos, Google Drive, Google+, and others. Winona led several initiatives focused on operational excellence, technical migrations, strategy, and algorithmic fairness. This included working within a cross-functional group to migrate abuse backends for ~70 Google products, updating and redefined operational Key Performance Indicators for global organization of 70+ full time employees, setting up program management and operational excellence standards for 200+ vendors in our content review team located across five countries, providing data analysis and operational insight on award-winning engineering/analyst/manual review operations automation project, with $5M annualized cost savings, initiating Project Management support in the newly formed Algorithmic Fairness focus area, and creating monthly and ad hoc reporting via SQL-based queries and basic data analysis.

Prior to their role in Trust & Safety

Winona Nash has a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Economics and Policy from the University of California, Berkeley.

They are on a team with Jacob McCarthy - Senior Director of Data Management, Chris Delfino - Counsel, and Sheila Mullins - Controller. Winona Nash reports to James Lanich, CEO.