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WRP Policy Fellows develop and implement state-level policy projects during the 10-month program.<\/p><\/div>\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 sound policy-making for afterschool and expanded learning. In the 10-month program, which begins in October, Fellows will study afterschool\/expanded learning policy and develop and implement state-level policy projects in partnership with their Statewide Afterschool Networks and the national Afterschool Alliance.<\/p>\n
The White-Riley-Peterson Policy Fellowship is named for William S. White, President and CEO of the C.S. 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, Director, Afterschool and Community Learning Network, and senior fellow at the Riley Institute.<\/p>\n
The 2016-2017 White-Riley-Peterson Policy Fellows are:<\/p>\n
Billie Jo Bakeberg<\/strong>, Steering Committee Chair, South Dakota Afterschool Network (Spearfish, S.D.) Learn more about the White-Riley-Peterson Policy Fellowship<\/a>. 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 field of afterschool and expanded learning nationwide have been selected as White-Riley-Peterson Policy Fellows as part of a partnership between the Riley Institute at Furman University […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":7007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4628","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=4628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSuzanne Birdsall<\/strong>, State Director, 21st Century Community Learning Centers (CCLC), Department of Education (Silver Lake, N.H.)
\nDavid Carroll<\/strong>, Chief Program Officer, Neighborhood Houses (St. Louis, Mo.)
\nLisa Caruthers<\/strong>, Director, Center for Afterschool, Summer and Expanded Learning, Harris County Department of Education (Houston, Texas)
\nLeslie Garvin<\/strong>, Executive Director, North Carolina Campus Compact (Elon, N.C.)
\nNichelle Harris<\/strong>, Network Lead, Ohio Afterschool Network (Columbus, Ohio)
\nJessica Hay<\/strong>, Program Director, California Afterschool Network (Sacramento, Calif.)
\nStephanie Lennon<\/strong>, Policy & Advocacy Coordinator, School’s Out Washington (Seattle, Wash.)
\nAmber May<\/strong>, Organizer – Program Director,\u00a0 Mississippi Statewide Afterschool Partnership Network — Operation Shoestring, Inc. (Jackson, Miss.)
\nShallie Pitman<\/strong>, Youth Development Associate, ACT Now (Chicago, Ill.)
\nKelly Riding<\/strong>, Network Lead, Utah Afterschool Network (Salt Lake City, Utah)
\nLaura Saccente<\/strong>, Director, Pennsylvania Statewide Afterschool\/Youth Development Network (PSAYDN) (Camp Hill, Penn.)
\nMegan Stanek<\/strong>, Network Director, Oklahoma Partnership for Expanded Learning (OPEL)\u00a0(Oklahoma City, Okla.)
\nPatrick Stanton<\/strong>, Creative Research Director, Massachusetts Afterschool Partnership (Boston, Mass.)
\nKelly Malone Sturgis<\/strong>, Executive Director, New York State Network for Youth Success (Albany, N.Y.)
\nCourtney Sullivan<\/strong>, Executive Director, Arizona Center for Afterschool Excellence (Tempe, Ariz.)<\/p>\n