We are excited to announce that the following OYUnited members have stepped up to become local Team Leaders for the Reconnecting Youth Campaign (RYC). This Campaign is to persuade federal lawmakers to increase investment in pathways out of poverty for Opportunity Youth by adding $4B/year in funding for existing proven federal programs, to reach one million Opportunity Youth each year.
Our first cohort of team leaders is listed below. They will each build a team in their own Congressional District who will persuade their Congressperson to support the RYC in a variety of ways. They have received their first training from Jo Ann Paanio of the Forum for Youth Investment and Adam Strong from OYUnited. They will receive ongoing coaching.
We are now recruiting the second cohort. Please contact Dorothy Stoneman
(
dstoneman@youthbuild.org
)
if you are interested.
LOCAL TEAM LEADERS FOR RYC, and their Congressional Districts (CD)
1. Ely Flores, (CA- 40)
2. Daniel Johnson, (CA- 40)
3. Daniel Rosebud, (GA-05)
4. Curtis Carmichael, (GA -05)
5. Roderick Nelson, (FL-18)
6. Shable Harris, (FL-25)
7. Stephen Bruce, (IL – 02)
8. Victoria Craft (LA-05)
9. Brandon Menjares, (MA- 07)
10. Sabrina Sheikh, (MD-04)
11. Paul Smith, (MD- 02)
12. Marcella Sims, (MI )
13. Phillip Layfield, (MO)
14. Shaquana Boykin, (NY-CD 08)
15. Kevin Quiroz, (NY -13)
16. Todd Timmons, (NY- 26)
17. Jamel Evans, (NY- 09)
18. Joshua Jolly, (OH-03)
19. Darell Daniels, (PA -05)
20. Tim Gunn, (SC -06)
21. Valeria Evans, (SC-07)
22. Isaac Espinal, (TX- 30)
23. Matt Murray, (VT)
Congratulations and many thanks to the outstanding leaders who are stepping forward! Grassroots organizing and local leaders working together with national leadership is a formula for victory.
