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Amy J. Anderson
University of Illinois Chicago
United States
Amy Anderson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Psychology in the College of Education at the University of North Texas. Her research interests include youth mentoring relationships, youth social justice engagement, and participatory action research.
April Riordan
Independent consultant
April Riordan is the Chief Operating Officer for Bolder Options, a Minnesota-based youth mentoring program and will earn her M.A. in Organizational Leadership in 2022
Lavasha Smith
Nexus Community Partners
Lavasha Smith holds an M.A. in Organizational Leadership and is the Program Manager of Black Community Trust Fund at Nexus Community Partners.
Bridget Hillard
Vuyo Consulting, LLC
Bridget Hillard is the co-founder of Vuyo Communtiy Partners. She specializes in youth program quality, organizational change and training facilitation. She holds Youth Works Methods and Management Trainer certifications from the Center for Youth Program Quality and also an M.P.A. (Master of Public Affairs) from University of Minnesota.
Bernadette Sánchez
University of Illinois at Chicago
Bernadette Sánchez is a professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is an expert on mentoring relationships and the positive development of urban, low-income adolescents of color, particularly Latinx and African American youth.
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