Milele Hallingquest, MSIT, PSM
is a Data Manager for Rise’s Organizing and Advocacy teams. She currently works in higher education and is a business owner and consultant. For the past 15 years, she has worked in various industries, including banking, supply chain management, telecommunications, and information services and technology. For the past eight years, she has worked as an adjunct professor at Southern New Hampshire University in their College of Online and Continuing Education program, where she teaches an information technology course. Recently, she completed the Generation Data course Introduction to Progressive Data where she learned about progressive movement-building and how they gather and use data. She has also completed Cornell University’s Women’s Entrepreneurship program and is working on a business model that helps socially conscious businesses improve equity. Milele holds a Master of Science in Information Technology from The University of Maryland Global Campus and a Bachelor of Science in Statistics from the University of South Carolina. In her free time, Milele enjoys traveling with her husband and son, researching and looking for old coins.