Communities In Schools of Nevada (CIS), the nation’s leading evidence-based stay-in-school organization serving 118 Nevada schools with regional offices in the Clark, Elko, Humboldt, and Washoe County school districts, is pleased to announce two key promotions. Christin Dixon has been named State Data and System Analyst and Dr. Jessica Kurr has been promoted to Programs, Data, and Learning Director.
Christin Dixon is a former CIS site coordinator who has experience in business and data analytics. In her new position as state data and systems analyst, Dixon is responsible for building and optimizing programs to drive efficiency for the organization statewide and for shaping and implementing data strategies for special initiatives and projects. Dixon earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in corporate communications from Lamar University, Texas, and is certified in Google data analytics.
In her new role, Dr. Jesscia Kurr oversees the organization’s programmatic quality standards for curriculum, data, and training. Relying on over a decade of experience designing curriculum, facilitating K-12 outreach programs, and teaching higher education, she collaborates with organizational leadership across the state to ensure that CIS site coordinators, program managers, and other staff can support CIS’ students. Additionally, she leads the CIS’ Diversity, Equity, Belonging, and Inclusion program initiatives that uplift both students and staff. Dr. Kurr previously worked in CIS’ grants department where she helped expand the private grants portfolio and assisted in streamlining the organization’s coordinated fundraising efforts.
About Communities In Schools of Nevada
CIS places full-time and professionally trained site coordinators in 118 Title I and high-needs schools across Nevada to support more than 100,000 students in grades K-12 who face barriers to their success—increasing the likelihood of students staying in school and graduating on time. The organization taps into a statewide network of more than 120 community nonprofits, partners, and agencies, bringing the community into the school to get students whatever they need to overcome the barriers they face that prevent them from achieving academically. From eyeglasses, dental care, health care, and professional counseling to food, school supplies, clothing, and housing, CIS identifies student needs and finds a way to address them, closing the gaps they experience in their everyday lives. CIS’s long-term vision is for every child enrolled in a Title I or high-needs school to access a CIS site coordinator and their evidence-based model of integrated student support, otherwise known as wraparound services. The graduation rate for CIS case-managed high school seniors in Nevada for the 2022-2023 school year was 95 percent. For more information, visit http://www.cisnevada.org and follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
