Joceline is a Project Director with more than a decade of experience in nonprofit management, program design, and community development. Her work centers on advancing early childhood and economic mobility initiatives through designing inclusive stakeholder engagement, governance structures, and programs. 

Prior to joining the organization, she served as an independent consultant supporting community-based nonprofits with strategic planning and resource development. Joceline is the co-author of the article “A Relational Approach to Transforming Power in a Community-University Partnership,” which was published in the Gatheways International Journal of Community Research and Engagement in 2021. She also held the role of Deputy Director at the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative, where she led fundraising strategy, expanded the organization’s funder base, managed multi-stakeholder collaboratives across youth development and education-related initiatives, creative placemaking efforts, and guided the organization’s finance and operations strategies. 

Joceline currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Dudley Street Neighborhood Charter School and the Boston Neighborhood Community Land Trust. She holds a Bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College in Lusophone Studies, modified with African and African-American Studies, and a Master’s in Public Policy from Tufts University.