First Cohort of Afterschool Policy Fellows to Join Advocacy Ranks

The afterschool community has a new team of supporters who will be helping to advance the field over the course of the next year.  Today, 15 afterschool and expanded learning leaders from across the country were announced as White-Riley-Peterson Policy Fellows as part of a partnership between The Riley Institute at Furman University and the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation.

• Paula Adams, Program Manager, Fun 5 Program, Kahoomiki (Honolulu, Hawaii)
• Ken Anthony, Director of Professional Development, Connecticut Afterschool Network (Branford, Conn.)
• Monica Armendariz, Director of Education/President BeHive USA/ Central Texas Afterschool (Austin, Texas)
• Eric Billiet, Expanded Learning Education Specialist, Minnesota Department of Education (Roseville, Minn.)
• Erin Bofenkamp, Director, South Dakota Afterschool Partnership (Sioux Falls, SD)
• Sonja Currie, Program Administrator, 21st CCLC and LEAPS Program, Memphis City Schools (Memphis, Tenn.)
• Blaire Denson, Director, Virginia Partnership for Out-of-School Time (Richmond, Va.)
• Rebecca Kelley, Executive Director of Community Services, YMCA of Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky (Cincinnati, Ohio)
• Katie Kross, Project Coordinator, Georgia Afterschool Investment Council (Atlanta, Ga.)
• Cherry Penn, Afterschool/21st CCLC Programs Supervisor, Baldwin County Public Schools (Loxley, Ala.)
• Michelle Rich, Senior Program Manager, SPPG State Public Policy Group (Des Moines, Iowa)
• Amanda Scott Thomas, Education Policy Director, School’s Out Washington (Seattle, Wash.)
• Nyeema Watson, Administrative Director, Center for Children and Childhood Studies at Rutgers University, Camden Campus (Camden, NJ)
• Julie Wild-Curry, Program Director, 21st CCLC, Community Afterschool Programs (Fairbanks, Alaska)
• Nicole Wilkins, Senior Communications and Policy Associate, Massachusetts Afterschool Partnership (Boston, Mass.)