Amanda Tullos, program manager with the Research and Curriculum Unit, collaborates alongside the Mississippi Department of Education to coordinate the implementation of the statewide K-12 workforce development plans. Formerly, Tullos was the Director of the Starkville Oktibbeha Consolidated School District/Mississippi State University Partnership School and Education Liaison in the MSU Office of Research and Economic Development. Throughout her career, Tullos has worked with students, teachers, parents and community partners to strengthen educational opportunities in Mississippi at the school, district and state levels. Tullos’ previous experience includes working as the SOCSD’s community and parent liaison and as literacy curriculum and intervention specialist. From 2014 to 2017, she was project manager at MSU’s Research and Curriculum Unit, overseeing efforts with the Mississippi Department of Education in secondary education, special education, school improvement, and work-based learning. Before moving to Starkville, she was an administrator in the Clinton Public School District and began her career in education teaching in New Orleans.