Ireri is Senior Program Manager at TheDream.US. She is a passionate student success advocate with more than fifteen years of experience advancing higher education access and success for undocumented, first-generation, lower-income, immigrant students, and students of color at the undergraduate and graduate level. Her expertise lies in working with students to advance their empowerment, and working with institutions and institutional departments to improve policies, practices and protocols that expand educational access and remove barriers for students. She is proud to have a background as a community organizer and use a social justice approach and an equity lens throughout her work. At TheDream.US her efforts focus on advancing the success and persistence of Scholars in college and in their post-graduation goals, including first job, entrepreneurship or graduate school.