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The Afterschool Alliance's Afterschool Ambassador program identifies afterschool providers and advocates of special achievement and helps them raise their voices in support of afterschool.
Selected from some of most effective afterschool programs and advocacy organizations in the nation, Ambassadors work every day to help keep kids safe, inspire children to learn and help working families. They know firsthand the barriers and benefits that communities face in making afterschool available to all children. The Alliance selects 15 to 25 Ambassadors from around the country each year, and then provides training, technical support, and modest funding for their Ambassadorial activities throughout the school year. Those activities include: coordinating a major Lights On Afterschool community event; working in concert with other local providers, advocates and business and community leaders to promote afterschool; reaching out to policy makers and the media on afterschool issues; and more.
The 2011-2012 Afterschool Ambassadors are listed below. Click here to read associated news releases for ambassador announcements.To see previous years' participants, see our Ambassador Emeritus page. Ambassadors are chosen by application in the spring. For information on how to apply to become an Ambassador, contact the Afterschool Alliance, or call (202) 347-2030.
PAULA ADAMS
Fun 5 Program-Kahoomiki
1493 Halekoa Drive
Honolulu, HI 96821
800-581-7491 x20
paulaadams1602@gmail.com
CHRISTINE BENECKE
Youth First
1 Tuscola Street
Suite 100
Saginaw, MI 48607
989-755-0545
christine@saginawfoundation.org
PAMELA BRASHER
Out-of-School Times Programs
9619 Cuyamaca Street
Santee, CA 92071
619-258-2369
pam.brasher@santeesd.net
TIM BRURUD
Boys & Girls Club of the Hi-Line
PO Box 68
Havre, MT 59501
406-265-6206
timb@bgchi-line.com
ELIZABETH COLBY
Project Promise
Newfound Regional High School
150 Newfound Road
Bristol, NH 3222
603-744-6006 ext. 129
bcolby@sau4.org
KAIDE L DODSON
Libby High School
724 Louisiana Avenue
Libby , MT 59923
406-334-0254
kaide_lee@yahoo.com
KATHERINE L DUNKERSON
Racine Unified School District
3109 Mt. Pleasant
Racine , WI 53404
262-644-6990
Kathy.Dunkerson@rusd.org
DEEPMALYA GHOSH
Child Center of NY
115-15 Sutphin Boulevard
Jamaica, NY 11434
347-510-4832
deepghosh@childcenterny.org
ESTHER GRANT-WALKER
Isaacs Center Afterschool Program
PS112 Jose Celso Barbosa School
535 East 119 Street
New York , NY 10035
212-427-2520
egrant-walker@isaacscenter.org
MICHELLE GONZALES-GREEN
Fab Labs Carolinas
721 Foster St. Rm 228
Durham, NC 27701
919-560-0560
michelle.green@fablabscarolinas.org
JAMES MCKISSIC
Urban League Chattanooga
Martin Luther King Boulevard
Chattanooga, TN 37403
423-756-1762
jmckissic@ulchatt.net
JEANNE Y MILLER
SHINE Program
Lehigh Carbon Community College
24 East Locust Street
c/o Jeanne Miller
Nesquehoning, PA 18240
610-799-1972
jmiller@lcc.edu
CHERRY PENN
Afterschool/21st CCLC Programs
Baldwin County Public Schools
1091 "B" Avenue
Loxley, AL 36551
251-972-8518
cpenn@bcbe.org
NOAH PRINCE
Tacoma 360
621 Tacoma Avenue South
Suite 503
Tacoma, WA 98402
253-579-1165
nprince@tacoma360.org
RALPH SMITH
Computer Mentors Group, INC
2802 E. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard
Suite F
Tampa, FL 33610
813-236-1191
Rsmith@computermentors.org
PRISCILLA STEINMETZ
The Bridge Teen Center
15555 S. 71st Court
Orland Park, IL 60462
708-532-0500
priscilla@thebridgeteencenter.org
GREG TOLBERT
Boys & Girls Clubs of the Upstate
PO Box 2794
Spartanburg, SC 29304
864-583-4867 ext. 102
greg@bgcusc.org
KAREN G WEST
Redhound Enrichment
Corbin Independent Schools
710 West 8th Street
Corbin, KY 40701
606-523-3628
karen.west@corbin.kyschools.us
LISA WETZEL
Kids World School Age Child Care
925 Parshell St.
Fairbault, MN 55021
507-333-6724
lisa_wetzel@fairbault.k12.mn.us
