Charlotte Cahill

Charlotte Cahill is a senior advisor at All4Ed focused on advancing strategies that multiply opportunities for young people, drive equitable outcomes, and create pathways to economic security, choice-filled lives, and thriving adulthoods. She builds external relationships, develops thought leadership, and designs strategies that support and transform K-12, higher education, and workforce development systems. Her areas of expertise span policy and practice and include systems change, cross-sector partnership building, intermediary development, work-based learning, dual enrollment, career navigation, and career and technical education.

Charlotte was previously an associate vice president at Jobs for the Future (JFF), where she co-led Pathways to Prosperity, an initiative that has supported cross-sector leaders in 32 states and over 150 communities in designing and scaling education-to-career pathways since its launch in 2012. In this role, she led multiple teams focused on piloting and scaling innovations, convening national- and state-level networks and communities of practice, and providing technical assistance and capacity-building support to a wide range of systems leaders and organizations advancing policy and practice across sectors.

Prior to joining JFF, Charlotte conducted policy research and worked to strengthen postsecondary programs and career pathways for student veterans at the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (CAEL). Charlotte began her career in higher education and has held faculty appointments at both two- and four-year institutions—including Northwestern University, DePaul University, and the College of Lake County in Grayslake, Illinois— where she taught a range of courses in U.S. and global history, foreign relations, and international studies.

She holds a B.A. in history from Boston College and an M.A. and Ph.D. in the history of U.S. public policy from Northwestern University.