Programme Director, North America
Paige was awarded a Bachelor’s Degree in Leadership and Public Policy and in Global Development Studies from the University of Virginia.
She joined the team CPI in 2018.
Over her six years at CPI, one of Paige’s proudest accomplishments was partnering with Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Bloomberg Center for Public Innovation at Johns Hopkins and the Harvard Center for Cities to design, implement and iterate the Innovation Track and Training Programs which provide introductory, applied learning experiences to help governments use innovation and design methodologies to solve complex local challenges to improve the lives of residents. To date, the team has reached over 1,000 public servants in 90 cities – helping to generate tens of thousands of ideas in partnership with thousands of residents.
She also served as the design coach for the city of Phoenix, one of the winners of the 2021 Global Mayors Challenge. The city was facing a unique challenge of a 30% increase in job posting, but more than 200,000 residents filing for unemployment in the immediate post-pandemic period — all in one of America’s fastest growing and distributed cities. Paige helped the team to prototype and test the idea of a Mobile Career Unit to provide targeted support to job seekers where they live—including training, interview opportunities, translation services, and connections to employers ready to hire them on the spot.
When Paige was in high school, she spent her senior year building a cross cultural exchange program for sixth grade students at my small school in Fredericksburg, VA and a small school in Mikindani, Kenya to learn about the world from different perspectives and build relationships with children who had different lived experiences than they did. She has carried a lot of the lessons about leading with curiosity from this project through her career to date.
Paige is passionate about CPI’s work to build cultures of innovation and learning in local governments around the world. She has always said the best part of her job are the moments when a lifelong public servant participating in one of our programs reflects a reinvigorated perspective about why they got into their job in the first place and how they’ve connected more deeply with the residents they serve as a result.
Outside of work, she finds joy from her daughter, Theo, her husband, Will, her dog, Bennett and a summery day on the beaches of southern Maine.