who is New Global Citizens?
New Global Citizen's mission is to mobilize young people in the United States to help solve the world's biggest problems. Our programs motivate high school students in the United States to ask "Why does half the world live in poverty? Why don't 1.2 billion people have access to clean water? Why do 1,200 children die every hour from preventable diseases?" Young people want answers and we want to be part of the solution. America's “Millennial” Generation (born 1980-1995) is the wealthiest, most connected and most diverse generation in our history. There are nearly 71 million people under the age of 25 in the U.S. and we collectively control over $211 billion in spending annually. We represent nearly every country, religion, and language on earth. Over 95% of this country's high school students make regular use of the internet to chat, email, and connect with friends and family worldwide. Given all these factors, young people are uniquely poised to tackle the world's greatest problems.
New Global Citizens exists to harness this potential. We believe that this generation - in partnership with communities around the world - has the power and will to end global poverty. Using the ten major global challenges as a framework, we have created clubs to educate, train, inspire and mobilize high school students for a life-long commitment to global change. As members of a Global Action Club , young people become educators, philanthropists, and advocates to support grassroots projects around the world. In the 2007-2008 school year, there will be over 75 Global Action Clubs around the U.S.—in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York. In Phoenix, clubs will be run in partnership with Youth Re:Action Corps. Current club members are working to educate, advocate and raise funds for vetted projects that combat child labor, lack of access to water, and the AIDS pandemic, to name a few. New Global Citizens' participants are proving that young people are an essential part of the answer to the world's greatest challenges. Our Leadership:For a complete list of the new staff and board post-merger click here .Pre-merger leadership: New Global Citizens is fortunate to have the support, encouragement, and wisdom of a wide variety of people. We are so grateful to them for lending their talents to our efforts.
STAFF
Cherie Cervantes
Director of Strategic Partnerships
Ouida has been working for New Global Citizens since January 2006 and works closely with our partner organizations to provide our clubs with relevant and inspiring grassroots projects to support around the world. Ouida attended Mount Holyoke College where she studied International Relations with a focus on Latin America and Spanish, and spent a year abroad in Argentina. After graduating, she joined the Peace Corps and served two and a half years in Ecuador working on community development. She currently serves as Ecuador Country Specialist for Amnesty International USA.
Program Director Cait has been with New Global Citizens since October of 2006 and serves as the Program Director, organizing trainings and working directly with the clubs. Before joining the movement she served as the Education Program Officer for an international development agency running their education programs around the world. She served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Kurigram, Bangladesh and received her M.A in International Comparative Education from Stanford. She speaks Bengali and has extensive experience traveling, working and living abroad in Asia, East Africa, the Caucasus, and South America. In her spare time she loves to get outside and get dirty- long hikes and fly fishing are favorites. Her apartment is full of plants and her roommate regularly complains that it looks like a jungle. She also loves to cook and if you get too close she’ll try to feed you.
Senior Program Associate & Advocacy Specialist Amanda is NGC's Senior Program Associate and Advocacy Specialist, having been on staff since 2004; while in high school, she worked on a NGC project for education in India. Amanda is a junior at Stanford University, studying Drama and Political Science. She is Founder/Executive Director of the Stanford Theatre Activist Mobilization Project (STAMP) and works extensively at Stanford organizing Jews for human rights in Palestine. Amanda has previously worked for the ACLU (Death Penalty Policy Project) and the Junior Statesmen of America (Director of Activism). In 2004, Amanda testified before the CA Senate on a bill to ban random student drug testing in high schools. Amanda enjoys belly dancing, tie-dying, thrift stores, sign language, singing, and vegan food.
Sarah Jo
Sarah Marion
Special Projects Director
Maria has worked with New Global Citizens for four years and is currently serving as the organization’s Special Projects Director while simultaneously pursuing a joint master’s degree in Public Health and Social Welfare at UC Berkeley.
Over the past several years Maria directed New Global Citizen’s AIDS related programs and helped to develop New Global Citizen’s unique approach to global awareness and engagement. She continues to serve as a coordinator and consultant for Youth Together Against AIDS projects and spent the summer of 2007 in South Africa working with HIV/AIDS orphans and vulnerable youth in the townships surrounding Johannesburg.
Her hobbies include photography, writing, and all kinds of out-door adventures. She is known to play loud music, reorganize and scour her entire apartment while baking her famous Giant-Oatmeal-Peanut-Butter-Chocolate-Chip cookies as a means of productively (and happily) avoiding homework.
Nicole Sanchez In March 2008, we said goodbye to one of our founders and former Executive Director. She continues to serve as an advisor and is now an independent consultant to non-profits around the U.S. You can find her at www.nsanchez.com. Nicole was born and raised in the Bay Area and attended Stanford University, where she majored in American Studies, focusing on race and identity. After graduating, Nicole spent several years at City Year, a model AmeriCorps program, and became its first National Program Director working to build community partnerships and recruit diverse groups of young people to commit a year to full-time community service. She then returned to Stanford as Associate Director for the Program in Ethics in Society where she co-founded "Hope House Scholars," a volunteer program in which professors teach the humanities to recently incarcerated women in Redwood City. Nicole also helped launch the Stanford Center on Ethics, a multi-disciplinary institute that ensures ethics training for all students in the university's professional schools. Nicole is continuously inspired by the power of youth, at work and at home with her husband and two young daughters, Faith and Grace.
Program Associate Danny is from the community of Watts in Los Angeles, California. He is a sophomore at the University of California, Berkeley and is double majoring in Development Studies with a focus in Latin America and Spanish. He has a passion for learning about different cultures and languages and loves travelling. In July 2005 he participated in a tsunami relief program with Relief International to offer aid in Sri Lanka. This was a life changing experience for Danny and is the main reason why he became interested in the field of development. In 2006 Danny backpacked solo across Europe and became interested in the still-developing Eastern Europe. Danny loves his family and is proud of his Mexican heritage, indentifying himself as a Xicano. Danny loves to spend time with friends and plays tennis whenever he gets a chance. |
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