{"id":2991,"date":"2014-08-04T03:10:39","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T03:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/19\/riley-institute-selects-fellows-to-develop-state-level-afterschool-policy\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T14:44:05","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T18:44:05","slug":"riley-institute-selects-fellows-to-develop-state-level-afterschool-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/riley-institute-selects-fellows-to-develop-state-level-afterschool-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Riley Institute selects fellows to develop state-level afterschool policy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sixteen leaders in the afterschool and expanded learning fields nationwide have been selected as White-Riley-Peterson Policy Fellows as part of a partnership between the Riley Institute at Furman University and the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation.<\/p>\n

Through discussion of actual case studies led by policy change-makers, the Fellowship equips graduates with a real world understanding of the art and science of policy-making for afterschool and expanded learning. In the 10-month program which begins in October, fellows will study afterschool and expanded learning policy, and develop state-level policy plans in partnership with their Statewide Afterschool Networks and the national Afterschool Alliance.<\/p>\n

The 2014-2015 White-Riley-Peterson Policy fellows are:<\/p>\n

Caroline Allen<\/b>, Pennsylvania Afterschool Youth Development Network (PSADYN) (Camp Hill, Penn.)<\/p>\n

Sara Beanblossom<\/b>, Director of Communications and Special Events, Indiana Afterschool Network (Indianapolis, Ind.)<\/p>\n

Armelle Casau<\/b>, Research and Policy Analyst, New Mexico Voices for Children (Albuquerque, N.M.)<\/p>\n

Erin Frati<\/b>, Network Lead, Maine Afterschool Network (Farmington, Maine)<\/b><\/p>\n

Ricky Gourrier<\/b>, Executive Director, Nevada Afterschool Network (Las Vegas, Nev.)<\/p>\n

Casey Hanson<\/b>, <\/b>Coordinator, Head Start and Afterschool Data Contract, Center for Family Policy and Research (Columbia, Mo.)<\/p>\n

Alli Lidie<\/b>, <\/b>Policy and Communications Coordinator, New York State Afterschool Network (NYSAN) (New York, N.Y.)<\/p>\n

Britney Lomax<\/b>, <\/b>Program and Policy Specialist, Governor’s Office for Children, (Baltimore, Md.)<\/p>\n

Lemar Marshall<\/b>, Council District 4, City of Hammond (Hammond, La.)<\/p>\n

Judith McShane<\/b>, Project Coordinator, University of Idaho 4-H Youth Development (Caldwell, Idaho)<\/p>\n

Del Ruff<\/b>, <\/b>Director, NC Center for Afterschool Programs, Public School Forum of NC (Raleigh, N.C.)<\/p>\n

Jim Snell<\/b>, Director, Volunteer Tennessee (Nashville, Tenn.) <\/b><\/p>\n

Fontella L. Taylor<\/b>, Site Coordinator\/Extension Educator, University of Delaware\/NCC Cooperative Extension (Newark, Del.)<\/p>\n

Samantha Thorstensen<\/b>, <\/b>Afterschool STEM Policy Director, Florida Afterschool Network (Kennedy Space Center, Fla.)<\/p>\n

Rachel Willis<\/b>, <\/b>Project Coordinator, Kansas Enrichment Network ( Lawrence, Kan.)<\/p>\n

Lori Zahdraka<\/b>, <\/b>21st CCLC Project Director, North Valley Career-Tech Center (Grafton, N.D.)<\/p>\n

The fellowship is named for William S. White, President and CEO of the Mott Foundation; Richard W. Riley, former South Carolina Governor and U.S. Secretary of Education under President Clinton; and Dr. Terry Peterson, national board chair with the Afterschool Alliance and a senior fellow at the College of Charleston. The fellowship is made possible by a $245,000 grant awarded to the Riley Institute by the C.S. Mott Foundation.<\/p>\n

For more information about the White-Riley-Peterson Policy Fellowship, click this link<\/a><\/i>. Or contact Cathy Stevens at the Riley Institute (864) 294-3265, or cathy.stevens@furman.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sixteen leaders in the afterschool and expanded learning fields nationwide have been selected as White-Riley-Peterson Policy Fellows as part of a partnership between the Riley Institute at Furman University and the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation.\u00a0In the 10-month program which begins in October, fellows will study afterschool and expanded learning policy, and develop state-level policy plans in partnership with their Statewide Afterschool Networks and the national Afterschool Alliance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":13478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,17,28,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-centers-and-institutes","category-education","category-riley-institute"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}