Colin Shay

Colin Shay currently serves as Director of Executive Initiatives/Projects, a role in which he advises SEO’s senior leadership in identifying and prioritizing initiatives to strategically address organization-wide opportunities and challenges. His work includes the planning, management, and coordination of high-impact cross-functional projects, and he also oversees SEO’s marketing and communications function. Colin serves as a key adviser, researcher, and thought partner to SEO’s President & CEO, as well as to the entire Executive Leadership Team.

Colin joined SEO in 2010 as Program Manager for the High School Scholars program in New York, a position in which he advised the cohort of 125 10th-grade Scholars and taught math classes for Saturday and Summer Academy. As the program grew in the subsequent years, Colin assumed progressive responsibility for multiple areas of the SEO Scholars (including academic program management, operations, data, and recruitment), ultimately serving as Program Director before stepping into his current role in 2018.