Shelby Doyle

Senior Vice President of Policy and National Partnerships

Shelby Doyle is the senior vice president of policy and national partnerships for the National School Choice Awareness Foundation where she oversees the foundation’s two year-round school choice navigation programs: Navigate School Choice and Conoce tus Opciones Escolares. In 2024, she founded the Navigate School Choice Network, a coalition of nearly 30 state-based organizations that provide support and guidance to parents choosing between their school choice options.

Shelby has worked in senior-level positions with the National School Choice Week since 2016. She is a graduate of the Policy Innovators in Education (PIE) Leadership Institute and 50CAN National Voices fellowship, a board member of The Forge School, a public charter school opening fall 2026, and a current MBA candidate at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, where she lives with her family.

Alissa Jacques

Manager, Digital Communications

Alissa Jacques serves as manager of digital communications at the National School Choice Awareness Foundation (NSCAF). In this role, Alissa oversees the organization’s English-language social media presence and develops high-impact advertising campaigns to inform, inspire, and empower parents about their K–12 education options.

Previously, Alissa owned her own digital marketing agency, served as an adjunct writing professor at Bloomfield College, and spent two years as an elementary school teacher at Democracy Preparatory Charter School in New York.

Alissa attended both public and private schools as a child, where she developed a love for creative writing. She holds a bachelor of arts in education policy and entrepreneurship from New York University, and a master of arts in sociology of education from Teachers College at Columbia University. In her spare time, she enjoys reading, scrolling through TikTok, and exploring NYC with her husband and cavapoo, Russ.