Mya McQueen

Vice President of Enrollment & Institutional Partnerships 

Mya McQueen has over a decade of leadership across nonprofits and higher education, she brings visionary clarity and compassionate execution to the work of student enrollment, community engagement, and institutional partnership.

Her journey began in 2018 as a first-generation college student at Neumann University, where she worked in the college admissions office—leading campus tours, answering phones, and assisting prospective students and families through the admissions process. In helping others take their first steps toward college, Mya began to reflect on her own. She saw firsthand how overwhelming the process could be—especially for students without guidance—and realized how many were slipping through the cracks not because of lack of potential, but lack of access.

  • It was during this season—still a student herself—that Mya’s passion was born: to become the advocate she once needed, and to ensure more students were not just admitted to college, but equipped to thrive there.

    This passion led her to pursue a master’s degree from Rutgers University’s College Student Affairs program, a well-regarded and nationally recognized program committed to preparing higher education professionals. At Rutgers, Mya immersed herself in the study of educational equity, institutional reform, and student development theory. Her research focused on closing access gaps for first-generation and underserved students, with a particular emphasis on redesigning student services, advising systems, and institutional messaging to foster belonging and success. Her graduate work gave her a panoramic understanding of the higher education system—its challenges, its levers for change, and the opportunities to reimagine it for a new generation of learners.

    As Vice President of Enrollment & Institutional Partnerships at Lionheart Coaching Academy, Mya leads all facets of enrollment strategy, family onboarding, and external relationship management. She ensures that Lionheart’s mission is not only heard—but trusted, adopted, and scaled through high-impact partnerships with schools, districts, churches, and community-based organizations. Her work bridges public-facing engagement with back-end enrollment systems, ensuring every student enters with alignment and every family feels seen, supported, and equipped from day one.

    Mya believes that when students are surrounded by intentional support, generational guidance, and a strong community, they’re positioned to thrive in lasting ways. Whether she's onboarding a new family or securing a school partnership, she approaches every relationship with care, clarity, and a deep desire to see students succeed beyond the classroom.

    Mya's leadership is grounded in deep lived experience. She understands the barriers that often prevent high-potential students from thriving—and she’s committed to dismantling them. From designing college access workshops and supporting first-generation initiatives, to advising student leaders, managing residential communities, and conducting research on self-authorship and educational equity, Mya has worked across every layer of higher education to make access real, belonging felt, and institutional barriers easier to overcome. Her career has consistently focused on building pathways of access, belonging, and purpose for students from underrepresented backgrounds.

    Prior to her current role, Mya served as Director of Outreach at Lionheart Coaching Academy, where she cultivated strategic partnerships and expanded access to college readiness programming. She also served as the SOAR Coordinator at Table of Hope, where she led a college access program connecting high school students with mentorship, tutoring, and exposure to higher education opportunities. In that role, she directed a tutoring initiative pairing college students with 5th graders for targeted academic support, facilitated college access workshops and campus tours for juniors and seniors, and designed as well as evaluated quarterly metrics to improve student outcomes.

    Her leadership style is equal parts strategic and deeply relational. Whether speaking with school administrators or walking a parent through their first enrollment call, Mya translates institutional vision into human connection—building bridges that turn access into transformation.

    Her mission is clear: to help students uncover their potential, equip families with the tools to steward it, and create systems where education becomes a launchpad for purpose and generational change.