About me
As the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of UnlockED, Kimberly Hanauer works with a broad set of districts and organizations to support leaders in taking a data-driven approach to college preparation, application, enrollment, and completion. She focuses on empowering client partners with insight into their student-level data by developing dashboards and other resources to proactively enable every student to achieve their postsecondary potential.
Before she started UnlockED in 2018, Kimberly served as the Director of College Preparedness for DC Public Schools (DCPS), where she built and managed the multitude of supports within the College Preparedness portfolio, including college partnerships, dual enrollment/early college, SAT administration, SAT test prep, Naviance, FAFSA completion, and early college & career awareness. Kimberly also partnered closely with the DCPS Office of Data and Strategy to build a robust set of college preparedness metrics and systematically evaluate data on college enrollment, persistence, and completion.
Prior to DCPS, Kimberly served as the Director of College & Career at the KIPP Foundation and oversaw young alumni and campus alumni engagement for her alma mater, Duke University, where she also earned her BA in Economics and MA in Liberal Studies. Her masters project was entitled “Examining the Role of Public-Private Partnerships in K-12 Career Readiness.”
Kimberly resides in the District of Columbia.
