Career Build 2015
YEP will hosting its first-ever online event, Career Build, through Google Hangouts. We’ve recruited education leaders to meet with members to discuss their career goals. All you'll need to participate is a computer, a webcam and a Google account. You can find more information, including the confirmed small group leaders at:
https://yepnational2015.eventbrite.com Date: Saturday, September 26 Time: 1-4pm Eastern Place: Google Hangouts (we'll send links for each discussion room) Confirmed Group Leaders Ben Austin, Policy and Advocacy Director, Students Matter J.W. Carpenter, Executive Director, Birmingham Education Foundation Michael Dunlea, Second Grade Teacher, Ocean Acres, New Jersey Tam Emerson, Program Director, Segal Citizen Leadership Program, Brandeis University Maya Garcia, Director of STEM, Office of the State Superintendent of Education, DC Allison Grizzle, Education Specialist, Educator Effectiveness, Alabama Department of Education Anne Hyslop, Senior Policy Advisor, U.S. Department of Education Jesse Rauch, Senior Program Manager, American Association of University Women Sarah Rosenberg, Legislative Fellow, Office of U.S. Senator Patty Murray William Wong, Director of Fiscal Services, San Gabriel Unified School District Full biosBen Austin, Policy and Advocacy Director, Students Matter
Ben Austin leads policy development and advocacy for Students Matter. Ben comes to the Students Matter team from Parent Revolution, a non-profit organization focused on transforming under-performing public schools by empowering parents to advocate for their children through grassroots community organizing, which Ben both founded and led for six years. In his role at Parent Revolution, Ben invented, passed into law, implemented, and scaled California’s historic parent trigger law, which enables parents to turn around failing schools through community organizing. Ben has dedicated much of his career to fighting for a California where every child can get a great public education. Prior to founding Parent Revolution, Ben helped run the successful teacher organizing campaign to transform Locke High School from the most violent and lowest-performing high school in Los Angeles into a high-performing neighborhood college prep charter school. He served as a Deputy Mayor of Los Angeles under Mayor Richard Riordan; and was a senior adviser to Rob Reiner and First 5 California from 2002-2006, where he invented and launched LAUP (Los Angeles Universal Preschool). In 2010, Ben was appointed to the California State Board of Education where he cast the vote to institute statewide common core standards. Ben came to the education space through a career in Democratic politics, during which he worked on five presidential campaigns; served as the host committee communications director for the 2000 Democratic National Convention; and served in the Clinton White House in a variety of different roles, including traveling with the President and First Lady to over a dozen countries. Ben has also practiced law as an intellectual property litigator at the Los Angeles law firm Irell & Manella; and as a criminal prosecutor in the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office where he prosecuted health insurance companies for the practice of canceling insurance coverage after a patient fell ill. Ben was born in New York City, grew up in Greenwich Village, NY and Venice Beach, CA. He graduated from UC Berkeley in 1991, and graduated cum laude and on law review from Georgetown Law School in 1998. Ben is an Aspen-Pahara Fellow and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. He currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Tracy, and their two daughters, Fiona and Eloise, who attend their neighborhood public school. Source: http://studentsmatter.org/our-team/students-matter-staff/ J.W. Carpenter, Executive Director, Birmingham Education Foundation
J.W. Carpenter has served as Executive Director of the Birmingham Education Foundation (BEF) since September 2013. Before coming to BEF, Carpenter served as the founding Executive Director for Teach For America Alabama – a branch of the nationally-recognized organization committed to providing and advocating for high quality education for students in low-income communities. Prior to his role with Teach For America, Carpenter was a litigator for the Birmingham law firm of Walston, Wells, and Birchall, LLP. Carpenter earned a B.A. from Boston College and a J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center. He serves on the boards of A+ Education Partnership, Operation Hope-Alabama, and Youth Entrepreneur Labs. He was named Top 40 under 40 in Birmingham in 2012, and is an alumnus of Leadership Birmingham and Leadership Alabama. Source: http://edbirmingham.org/staff/ Michael Dunlea, Second Grade Teacher, Ocean Acres, New Jersey
Tam Emerson, Program Director, The Eli J. Segal Citizen Leadership Program, Brandeis University Maya Garcia, Director of STEM, Office of the State Superintendent of Education, District of Columbia Maya Garcia is the Director of STEM for the Office of the State Superintendent of Education of the District of Columbia and leads the work around NGSS implementation and STEM programming, partnering with community stakeholders, and over 200 schools in the District of Columbia to improve outcomes for students in STEM. At OSSE, Maya works to improve agency capacity to plan and execute high quality STEM programming across PK-Post secondary programs. OSSE’s focus areas include Early Literacy, Career and Technical Education, STEM Teacher Pathways, Extended day and OST STEM Learning and Environmental Literacy. She served as a middle school science teacher in the district for 8 years prior to joining OSSE and is an avid traveler. Allison Grizzle, Education Specialist, Educator Effectiveness, Alabama State Department of Education
Anne Hyslop, Senior Policy Advisor, U.S. Department of Education As a senior policy advisor in the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Planning, Evaluations, and Policy Development, Anne Hyslop works to develop and implement the Department’s K-12 policy priorities, especially related to standards, assessments, and accountability. Previously with Bellwether Education Partners, New America, and Education Sector, Anne has written reports on states' transitions to NCLB waivers, high school exit exams, accountability for personalized learning, Common Core implementation, and data and accountability systems for college and career readiness. Her work has been featured in The Washington Post, U.S. News & World Report, Slate, Education Week, and Politico. Anne began her career in state government, developing early childhood policy for the governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia and the Virginia Early Childhood Foundation. In these roles, she helped design and manage Virginia’s quality rating and improvement system and efforts to promote school readiness and access to high-quality preschool. She holds a bachelor's degree in government from the College of William and Mary and a master’s degree in public policy from Georgetown University. Jesse Rauch, Senior Program Manager, American Association of University Women
Sarah Rosenberg, Legislative Fellow, Office of U.S. Senator Patty Murray William Wong, Director of Fiscal Services, San Gabriel Unified School District
Will Wong received his B.S.E. in Civil Engineering from Princeton University. After graduating, he worked for general contracting companies throughout the U.S. in engineering, financial and management roles. He transitioned into education and attended Claremont Graduate University, receiving a Masters in Education, and taught math for over seven years at Gabrielino High School, a public high school in San Gabriel, CA. He also served as the President of the San Gabriel Teachers Association, a local affiliate of the California Teachers Association / National Education Association. Currently, he is the Director of Fiscal Services for the San Gabriel Unified School District, supporting the oversight of all financial operations related to running an urban school district with an annual budget of over $50 million that serves 5,200+ students. He holds an administrative services certificate from Point Loma Nazarene University, and has worked as a Corps Member Advisor and Director of Data Management for Teach For America, where he helped train new Corps Members and analyzed data for their Summer Institute. He also served on a policy team with the education group Educators 4 Excellence. He was a 2012 New Leaders Council Fellow. In May 2014, he received a California PTA “Teachers Making a Difference Award,” for being a “dedicated advocate for students” who “embodies what a teacher should be” and was profiled by education policy writer Sara Mead in Education Week as one of nine people in 2014 who will “shape education in the next 10 years.” He enjoys discussing anything related to public education, and believes teachers should play a more central role in shaping education policy. He grew up in Elmhurst, Queens, NY, one of the most diverse neighborhoods in the United States, and attended New York City public schools. He lives with his wife and two children in Monrovia, CA. |
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