About Us

Mo Coffey is passionate about developing the capacities of the public service sector. As the founder and principal of Challenges and Solutions LLC, Mo uses a culturally competent, anti-bias, and strengths-based approach to help mission-driven organizations identify challenges and formulate solutions to achieve organizational efficiency, strengthen board and staff relationships, enable strategic growth, and define program outcomes. She also enjoys helping emerging and established leaders in public service develop their leadership capabilities, explore their professional passions, chart career paths, and search for meaningful opportunities.

Mo’s consulting clients have included private foundations; the Institute for Child Success funded by the Obama White House Social Innovation Fund; Blue Meridian Partners; Center for Justice Innovation; Osborne Association; Center for Employment Opportunities; Day Care Council of New York; the Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center funded by the New York State Health Foundation; Mission: Cure; Center for Gender & Refugee Studies at UC Hastings College of the Law; INCLUDEnyc; and the Office of the President at New York University (NYU).

Furthering her commitment to leadership and professional development, for over sixteen years Mo has directed the Fellowship for Emerging Leaders in Public Service (FELPS), a program of NYU’s Changemaker Center. FELPS provides professional development support for leaders early in their public service careers to establish and support a pipeline of committed and diverse public service leaders. She oversees the professional development of the undergraduate participants in NYU’s Presidential Internship Program, a program she co-founded in 2017.

She currently serves as an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Public Service at NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service where she teaches the year-long capstone class on Social Impact, Innovation, and Investment to Master of Public Administration students. She also teaches the Public Management II and Practice of Work courses to students in the Master of Science in Public Policy program. 

Previously, Mo worked as the managing director for The Good Dog Foundation, the national leader in therapy dog training, certification, visit coordination, research, and awareness. She was also the coordinator at the National Center on Philanthropy and the Law at NYU School of Law.

Mo earned her Master of Public Administration in Public and Nonprofit Management and Policy from NYU Wagner. She is a former Trustee of Rollins College in Winter Park, FL, where she earned an Honors Bachelor of Arts degree summa cum laude in International Relations with a minor in Spanish.