Gregory DeSantis

Greg DeSantis is an associate vice president in the Education practice at JFF. He designs and scales the next generation of JFF’s postsecondary education and training strategy.

His skills and areas of expertise include:

Postsecondary education and its systems
Equitable student success including pathways design
Systems change and institutional redesign
Strategic fundraising and grant application
Student-centered enrollment management

Before joining JFF, DeSantis led Student Centered Consulting, working with organizations and states on projects that advance student success. Before that, he served for nearly fifteen years in the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities system, in roles including the vice president for student success and academic initiatives, where he led the development of Guided Pathways while merging twelve community colleges into a single accredited institution.