Symone Morales is the Executive Director for OneGoal in the Bay Area where she works closely with schools, district leaders and communities to transform postsecondary advising and ensure all students are able to achieve their greatest postsecondary aspirations. Prior to joining OneGoal, Symone served as the Associate Dean of Students and Director of the First Generation and/or Low-Income Student Success Center (FLISSC) at Stanford University, where she led efforts across the university to enhance the FLI student experience and ensure persistence through graduation. Throughout her career, she has held multiple positions, ranging from K-12 to university level, supporting and advocating for marginalized and underrepresented minority students to have equitable access to education. She has developed and built programs that focus on matriculation and retention and is an expert in supporting low-income and first-generation college students. In 2016, Symone assisted in inaugurating and overseeing the undergraduate first generation college program at UCLA called First To Go. This program laid the framework for many of the first-gen initiatives that developed across all ten UC campuses over the past seven years. Symone holds a BA in Sociology and African American Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Master’s degree in Student Affairs from UCLA. Symone was born and raised in Durham, North Carolina and has spent the past ten years across the state of California working at various postsecondary institutions leveling the learning landscape for all students.