Sixteen leaders in the field of afterschool and expanded learning nationwide have been selected as White-Riley-Peterson (WRP) Policy Fellows as part of a partnership between the Riley Institute at Furman University and the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation.<\/p>\n
The new class of WRP Policy Fellows brings the total number of program participants to 91 since the initiative was launched in 2012.<\/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 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 WRP Policy Fellowship is named for William S. White, Chairman 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 2017-2018 WRP Policy Fellows are:<\/p>\n
Yolande’ Anderson<\/strong>, Director of the Office of Family and Community Engagement, South Carolina Department of Education (Columbia, S.C.) Learn more about the\u00a0White-Riley-Peterson Policy Fellowship<\/a>. Or contact Cathy Stevens at the Riley Institute 864-294-3265, or\u00a0cathy.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 (WRP) Policy Fellows as part of a partnership between the Riley Institute at Furman […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":6768,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,29,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-centers-and-institutes","category-riley-institute","category-top-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6767","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\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nMercadi Crawford<\/strong>, Deputy Director, Texas Partnership for Out of School Time (Austin, Texas)
\nMallory Deprey<\/strong>, School Age Program Coordinator, YWCA of New Britain (New Britain, Conn.)
\nAndrew Ganucheau<\/strong>, Network Lead, Louisiana Center for Afterschool Learning (Baton Rouge, La.)
\nAngelique Jessup<\/strong>, Program Director, Baltimore Campaign for Grade Level Reading, Fund for Educational Excellence (Baltimore, Md.)
\nSteve Mielenhausen<\/strong>, Principal, Davenport Community Schools (Davenport, Iowa)
\nBecky Mueller<\/strong>, Network Lead, North Dakota Afterschool Network (Fargo, N.D.)
\nJenna Pak<\/strong>, Program Specialist, A+ Program, Community Engagement Office, Hawaii State Department of Education (Honolulu, Hawaii)
\nAmy Pichette<\/strong>, Director of Afterschool and Summer Programming, LearningWorks (Portland, Maine)
\nMichelle Radford<\/strong>, School Age Specialist, Georgia Department of Early Care and Learning (Atlanta, Ga.)
\nAleah Rosario<\/strong>, Director of Capacity Building Programs, California School Age Consortium (Berkeley, Calif.)
\nMay Sagbakken<\/strong>, Executive Director, New Mexico Out-of-School Time Network (Albuquerque, N.M.)
\nEric Shaw<\/strong>, Development and Communication Specialist, Massachusetts Afterschool Partnership (Boston, Mass.)
\nFelicia Simpson<\/strong>, Contract and Grants Administrator, University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa, Ala.)
\nBrent Wake<\/strong>, Executive Director, Indiana State Alliance of YMCAs (Indianapolis, Ind.)
\nRenea Wood<\/strong>, Program Development Director, YMCA of Klamath Falls (Klamath Falls, Ore.)<\/p>\n