PREP-KC's Workforce Liaisons program ensures that Kansas City's high school are having transformative experiences within their planned career path. Our Liaisons are seasoned professionals from business and industry who work with College & Career Coordinators in our partner school districts. Their role is to help teachers and students gain access to cutting-edge business and industry requirements and skills.

Arts and Communication 
Anne Johnston
Contact: (816) 352-1353
Anne Johnston is pleased to join PREP-KC as the Arts & Communication Workforce Liaison.  Upon completion of her master's degree in Theatre History and Dramaturgy at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, Johnston moved to Chicago to serve as Education Director at the city's prestigious Lookingglass Theatre.  There she also dramaturged for the Lookingglass main stage and stage-managed Chicago's Annual Dream Halloween, a benefit for the Children Affected by Aids Foundation.  Johnston returned to Kansas City in 2004 to direct the Continuing Education Department at the Kansas City Art Institute.  In 2005, she made the move to Starlight Theatre to serve as Director of Educational Programs.

Engineering & Technology
Matthew Nugent
Contact: (816) 419-0703
Matthew Nugent comes to the Engineering & Technology Workforce Liaison role at PREP-KC by way of architecture. He is a graduate of Lincoln College Preparatory Academy, and moved to Boston to study for his master's degree in Architecture in 2000. After working at nationally known firms Goody Clancy Architects and Cambridge Seven Associates, he returned to Kansas City in 2008 to work on the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts at BNIM. Throughout his work as an architect he remained active in various mentoring and educational programs, working as a teaching assistant and student mentor at the Boston Architectural Center and participating in ACE Mentoring here in Kansas City. Long concerned about a lack of opportunities for minority and low-income students in the architecture and engineering fields, in early 2011, he left architecture to join PREP-KC.

An active search is under way for the following Liaison position:

• Health Sciences

For more information about this position, please call (816) 931-PREP (7737).