Kristin Hultquist

Kristin Hultquist, founder and CEO of HCM Strategies and former senior advisor at the U.S. Department of Education, talks Pell Grant funding and policy solutions. She explains how FAFSA changes created a structural shortfall. She discusses mandatory versus discretionary funding, Workforce Pell design and guardrails, and the need for sustainable, data-driven approaches that protect opportunity for working and first-generation students.