Cara Mattaliano
Assistant Director
Cara Mattaliano is the assistant director of strategic partnerships & community engagement at BU Wheelock. In this role, she promotes and facilitates partnerships with the community, local government, international educational institutions, and the private sector.
Before joining BU Wheelock, Ms. Mattaliano led the Specialized Services department at Catalyst Maria, a K–12 charter school in Chicago, where she developed and implemented data-driven, holistic systems to support 250 students with diverse learning needs. She began her career in education as a special education high school math teacher and Teach for America corps member in Chicago.
Before beginning her career in education, Ms. Mattaliano played professional volleyball for one year in Copenhagen, Denmark. As a graduate student at Harvard, she worked on the Boston Pathways Partnership team with the Project on Workforce and BU Wheelock to further an initiative to close opportunity gaps and ensure all Boston Public Schools students graduate college and career ready.
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Education
MEd, Education Policy and Analysis, Harvard Graduate School of Education
MA, Teaching Special Education, Relay Graduate School of Education
BA, History, Princeton University
Selected Presentations
Churchill, M., & Mattaliano, C. (2025, April 1). Amplifying visibility, reach, and impact: A community-engaged communications strategy at BU Wheelock [Conference presentation]. Campus Compact Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA.
Churchill, M., & Mattaliano, C. (2025, March 24). Developing a cohesive strategy for global work: Leveraging a college merger and senior leadership transition to increase global engagement [Conference presentation]. 69th Annual Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), Chicago, IL, United States.