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    Carmita Semaan

    Founder & CEO, Surge Institute on the “multiplier effect” that the Alliance can lead to by enabling orgs to overcome a scarcity mindset and think expansively about partnerships

  • Jaclyn Piñero

    CEO, uAspire on how joining the Alliance was a “no brainer,” and the power of coming together as both a team and a sector through our Community

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    Ricardo Neal

    CEO, We Will All Rise on how the Alliance Community supports new and emerging orgs, creating space for leaders to share both challenges and successes with vulnerability

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    Benjamin Houltberg

    President & CEO, Search Institute on changing the narrative around young people, and how coming together around core problems of practice can create change that goes beyond any one person or organization

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    Lena Eberhart

    CEO, Let's Get Ready on how connectivity, collaboration, and coordination in the Alliance leads to org-level change, and how a recognition of shared challenges is a precursor to tackling structural and systemic barriers

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    Gregg Betheil

    CEO, PENCIL on how Alliance’s participation enables individual leaders to grow and evolve into new roles and more effectively move organizational strategy forward

  • Angela Glymph

    CEO, Peer Health Exchange on finding community and affirmation as a first-time CEO, and how colleagues in the Alliance have helped to instill confidence and combat imposter syndrome

  • Josh Hoen

    Interim CEO, One Million Degrees on the unique, peer-to-peer experience of connecting with other Alliance leaders, the critical role of vulnerability and candor, and how this kind of collaboration is essential to catalyzing institutional and systemic change

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    Postsecondary to Workforce Pathways

    Learn more about our Postsecondary to Workforce Pathways work

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    Steve Colón

    CEO, Bottom Line

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    Steve Colón

    CEO, Bottom Line on how the Alliance enables individual organizations to think bigger

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    Dr. Siva Kumari

    CEO, College Possible on how the Alliance’s ability to look across 150+ member organizations provides a unique vantage point

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    Dr. Eve Shapiro

    Chief Knowledge Officer, Beyond 12 on collaboration

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    Dr. Eve Shapiro

    Chief Knowledge Officer, Beyond 12 on collaboration

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    Marc Lesser

    VP of Research & Technology, NAF on Meeting 'This Moment' in our Sector

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    Dr. Tarece Johnson-Morgan

    Former Chief Officer of Belonging, Culture, & Equity at Friends of the Children

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    Jodi Mastronardi

    New Classrooms on 'Bringing Together the Right People'

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    Tiffany Erickson

    Former Executive Vice President, Strategic Communications, Forum for Youth Investment on How the Alliance is Different

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    Marvin Vilma

    Managing Director of Development, Let's Get Ready on Tackling Big Questions

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    Kimberly Howard Robinson

    EVP, The Forum for Youth Investment on Building Youth-Serving Systems

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    Dr. Tiffany Grant

    Former Chief of Staff, Communities in Schools on Shared Challenges in the Alliance

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    Jessica Bynoe

    President, Pencil on How the Alliance is Shifting the Culture of the Nonprofit Sector

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    Binta Vann

    Chief Marketing Officer, NPower on building community in the Alliance

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    Sadiq Ali

    VP, Alliance Community on the Philosophy Behind the Alliance Member Experience

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    Nithi Thomas

    VP of Alliance Programming on Leadership Cohorts

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    Parvathi Santhosh-Kumar

    Vice President, Community Impact

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    Sean Flanagan

    VP, of Research and Evaluation