Zoë has worked on education, public health, and health care issues for underserved populations for the past 20 years. An attorney and public health analyst by training, through Zoë Beckerman Consulting LLC, Zoë now helps craft strategies, strengthen systems, and address solutions for education, health and social services organizations. She specializes in Head Start and Early Head Start issues and has taught and coached hundreds of programs across the country on the ins and outs of the amended Head Start Act and Program Performance Standards, Head Start governance, privacy issues, human resources, and fiscal matters. Also, for the past 12 years as a lawyer, she has worked with non-profits across the country advising and counseling on legal/regulatory matters in federal grants and strategic decision-making.
In addition to consulting, Zoë teaches an introduction to public health course at the George Washington University’s Milken Institute School of Public Health. She has also taught public health ethics, leadership and advocacy at George Mason University and developed and taught the first federal grants law course at the George Washington University Law School.
In 2015, she left a prominent Washington, DC law firm as Partner and Managing Principal of the firm’s consulting arm. Prior to practicing law and consulting, she worked for the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and on Capitol Hill.
In her spare time, she is the Vice President of the Earth Force board and sits on the advisory council of the Partnership for Gender Equity, a project of the Coffee Quality Institute.