We are HCM
HCM works effectively on our clients’ behalf, providing support and strategic guidance to help form policy priorities that are impactful and meaningful in education.
We tackle the systemic barriers, improving student achievement from kindergarten to 12th grade, reforming federal financial aid, increasing college attainment and completion rates, and ensuring that student preferences and priorities are at the center of regulatory decision-making. We work hard because success is our priority.
HCM was created because we believe that sound public policy can improve outcomes for all people.”
– Terrell Halaska Dunn, HCM Partner, Former policy advisor to the White House and two federal agencies, national expert in health, K-12 and postsecondary policy
How We Began
Our team shares a fundamental and important desire – to contribute to meaningful change for communities who have and continue to be underserved by our education systems and to improve equity in education through sound public policy. Since 2008, HCM Strategists has coalesced around these goals, bringing together colleagues with different backgrounds who share years of expertise in K-12, postsecondary education and work and learning. Our founding partners Terrell Halaska Dunn and Kristin Hultquist are honored to share their mission with the finest, most experienced minds in public policy and advocacy, working tirelessly to improve education outcomes throughout the U.S.
We firmly believe that achieving such outcomes takes a combination of high-level government experience, an understanding of underserved communities, a network of strong relationships, a keen analytical ability and the skills to find fresh and creative approaches.
Community
Engagement
HCM Strategists supports charitable organizations that are dedicated to their communities, furthering education services to those in need. Each year the full HCM staff is engaged in hand-picking these organizations. Just as our commitment to meaningful change is steadfast, we believe that the far-reaching work of these organizations betters the lives of those that they are able to touch. We invite you to learn more about these organizations.
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United Funds of Puerto Rico is a private, non-profit organization that for more than 45 years has been dedicated to promoting the common good, creating opportunities for a better quality of life for all by working as a team with volunteers, social investors, charities and collaborators from different sectors.
The Leslie-Lohman Museum is the only dedicated LGBTQ art museum in the world with a mission to exhibit and preserve LGBTQ art and foster the artists who create it. The Museum has over 30,000 objects in its collections, spanning more than three centuries of queer art.
Through a partnership of family, school, and community, Cornerstone provides a Christ-centered, nurturing, and academically rigorous education to the children of Washington, D.C., equipping them with the knowledge, skills, and values necessary to become leaders who serve others in light of Christ and His Truth.
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The Postsecondary National Policy Institute (PNPI) is the leading source of professional development for current and prospective policymakers who work on federal higher education issues.
The Trevor Project is the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) young people ages 13-24.
The Community Foundation of Greater Flint serves the common good in Genesee County – building a strong community by engaging people in philanthropy and developing the community’s permanent endowment – now and for generations to come.
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Chrohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America
Great Expectations
Horton’s Kids
Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art
Martha’s Table
PNPI Summer Scholars Program
Aged Woman’s Home
Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence
Chrohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America
First Place Scholars
Great Expectations
The Grassroot Project
Bread for the City
Carpenter’s Shelter
Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation
D.C. Central Kitchen
Fight for Children
Pancreatic Cancer Action Network
Prostate Cancer Foundation
Smith Center for Healing and the Arts
Whitman-Walker Health
William E Doar Jr Public Charter School for the Performing Arts
Wounded Warrior Project