Helping students build the work and the story
Top College USA supports students who are preparing for selective academic pathways and meaningful public leadership.
OUR LEAD STRATEGIST
Founder and Principal, Narrative Strategy & Communications
Lead narrative strategy, communications, grant writing, public-facing storytelling, and project architecture for youth-led and mission-driven work across climate action, clean water, food systems, education, public health, research, and civic leadership.
Before founding Top College USA, Karri owned Nice Design, a marketing company that worked with national brands, education organizations, museums, and nonprofits. Earlier in her career, she served as a senior product manager at Johnson & Johnson, where she developed brand strategies, consumer research, digital campaigns, social media programs, and national partnership materials for major medical product lines. She also worked as a marketing manager for a billion-dollar private food conglomerate, experience that shaped her understanding of food systems, consumer behavior, packaging, and public messaging.
At Top College USA, Karri helps students, founders, and youth-led initiatives turn meaningful work into public narrative. Her projects often sit at the intersection of climate, clean water, school food, plastic reduction, public health, and civic participation. She builds the language, campaign frames, media materials, public remarks, toolkits, and long-term strategy that help serious work become visible and usable.
Her work is grounded in one belief: good ideas need more than achievement. They need a story people can see, repeat, fund, join, and carry forward.
Partnerships
Building Communities Around the World
For more than 20 years, Jill has helped Top College USA build the partnerships that connect students to the right programs, mentors, and academic opportunities.
For more than 20 years, Jill has helped build the partnerships that make Top College USA’s student work possible. She connects families, students, schools, instructors, universities, researchers, nonprofits, and community partners so that a student’s interests can grow into real academic and public opportunities.
Jill’s work is relationship-driven. She helps identify the right programs, coordinate with partner institutions, open doors to mentors, and find settings where students’ ideas can be taken seriously. Much of her role happens through careful introductions, steady follow-up, and a clear sense of what each student is ready to build.
coordination
A Thousand Points of Connection
For more than 20 years, Lynda has helped students move through the application process with clarity, precision, and care. She makes sure every part of the application is complete, polished, and aligned with the student’s larger strategy.
Lynda looks closely at the details that can change how an application is read: deadlines, forms, activity descriptions, essays, supplements, recommendation materials, and final submissions. Her role is both practical and strategic. She helps make sure the pieces do not sit separately, but work together to present the student with accuracy, strength, and purpose.
