Isa

Isa is the Director of Coach Development at Prompt. She started as a Writing Coach in 2018, was an inaugural Coach Mentor, and stepped into her current leadership role in 2023. She studied operatic performance, cultural studies, and creative writing through The New School’s undergraduate and graduate programs before going on to earn her Doctorate of Literature at Drew University, centering her dissertation on the decolonization of the memoir. For the past 20 years, Isa has spearheaded a wide variety of long and short-term projects that span education, human rights, food sovereignty, and the performing arts, cultivating strengths in growing communities, building equity, and leveraging technology within grassroots and human-centered initiatives. She worked with Amnesty International as an investigator and writer for over a decade before serving as a director at several international nonprofits. Most notable is her role as curriculum director for the School for the Liberation of Women in Oaxaca, Mexico. Her work at Prompt represents the perfect intersection of her interests in writing, pedagogical theory, community, strategic planning, and education access. Isa’s passion for lifelong learning is not only evident in her career path, but also in her continued personal educational endeavors, which include graduate-level certifications in CELTA TESOL Teaching (International House), Diversity & Inclusion (Cornell), Leadership Essentials (Cornell), and College Admissions & Career Planning (UC Berkeley). Through the Academy to Innovate HR, Isa has completed two certifications in Diversity & Inclusion and Learning & Development.