Libby Livings-Eassa is a nationally recognized speaker and subject matter expert for comprehensive Career Pathways and workforce systems analysis, development, and building capacity.  She has extensive expertise in all aspects of career pathways systems, adult education, workforce development, legislation and policy, leadership development, staff development, linkages between secondary and postsecondary institutions and workforce systems, community engagement, partnerships with business, industry and labor, and curriculum development.

In 2010, Libby received an appointment to the U.S. Department of Education to work with the Office of Career, Technical and Adult Education (OCTAE). Her responsibilities included serving as Senior Program Lead for the broad scale dissemination of OCTAE’s Programs of Study framework, Program Director for the Rigorous Programs of Study National Initiative, OCTAE’s lead and subject matter expert for the U.S. Dept. of Labor’s Career Pathways Institute Initiative and on the Perkins monitoring team.

She is a contributing author in the 2012 publication The Career Pathways Effect: Linking Education and Economic Prosperity and to the publication Career Pathways: Education With a Purpose.