Kathy Cross is the Assistant Director for Federal Grant Programs for the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education’s (DESE’s) Office of Planning and Research, Resource Allocation Strategy and Planning. Most recently, Kathy has worked as part of a core team to develop and implement the new cloud-based grants management system, Grants for Education Management System (GEM$) both internally and in the field, in addition to responsibilities associated with managing federal entitlement grant programs.