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Stephanie Ariza | Assistant Manager, YES BizCenter
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Tim Cohen-Mitchell, M.Ed.
Executive Director & Founder
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Tim began working with disconnected youth in Cork City, Ireland in 1986 while researching his undergraduate honor's thesis, Unemployed or Unemployable? Joblessness Amongst Disadvantaged Young Men. In 1988, he co-founded Ajabu African Arts, a youth handicrafts export co-op in Nairobi, Kenya. From 1994-1997, Tim was project manager at Franklin County Community Development Corporation in Greenfield, MA where he helped local artisans & specialty food producers launch a retail outlet; organized peer-lending groups; piloted a welfare-to-work co-op business training program, and co-founded the Valley Trade Connection, a local trading system for residents & businesses. From 1997-1999, he was community organizer at Orange Revitalization Partnership, in Orange, MA, coordinating park restoration, volunteer recognition awards, summer youth festivals, and a teen center. It was at ORP that Tim founded YES in 1998. In 1999 he was named a 'Teacher of the Year' by the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship. In 2001 he was selected as one NFTE's first five certified teacher instructors. Tim holds a BA, cum laude, in anthropology, an M.Ed., in community development education, and is completing his doctoral dissertation on youth entrepreneurship education, all at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is author of numerous articles and the book, Journey of Dreams: A Teenager's Life in Kenya (1993), and co-author of Local Currencies in Community Development (1997, Center for International Education). He and his family live in Orange.
Christine McMahon | Youth Organizer, NQ Young Leaders Council & Assistant Manager, YES BizCenter
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I grew up in Malden and graduated from Malden High School in 1981. After living in Quincy for six years, I moved to East Boston in 1987. I worked in downtown Boston at law firms during this time, until my children were born in 1993 and 1996. I took a job as superintendent of the building I lived in with my children, but was still looking for another way to earn a living, and be available for them. I owned and operated two convenience stores in East Boston, but moved out to Orange in August to get my kids out of the city. They now have the opportunity to grow up in a rural setting with better schools.
Amber Ortiz | Coordinator, Learn-2-Earn
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Jeremy Parker | Member Services Coordinator
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I'm a graduate of Montachusett Regional Vocational Technical School and am currently an Associates Degree candidate at Mount Wachusett Community College in Computer Information Systems. I am also one of the Mount's 12 Community Scholars, working at YES for 1,000 hours, for which I receive a $10,000 college scholarship and $1,000 to help with transferring to a four-year college. I hope to attend either Johnson & Wales University or New England Institute of Art.
Interns | 2007-2008
Kristin Spinoza, UMASS, Amherst
Devlin Man, UMASS, Amherst
Katie Marble, Franklin County Technical School
James Fanning, homeschool
Jessica Hough, Mahar Regional High School
Brieanna Moore, homeschool
Nicole Wilson, Franklin County Technical School
Adjunct Faculty
Jeff Aho
Amber Ortiz
Jerry Whaland (YES '99), Incorporator
Staff Blog
Past Staff Members
Employees
Rayna Ramirez
Tracy Dowd-Diabe
Alan Paige (YES '03)
Sheila Fisher
Dave Wiles (YES '06)
Samantha Charter (YES '04)
Jeroth Clark (YES '02)
Amber Ortiz
Jeff Aho
Amy Barstow
Jerry Whaland (YES '99)
Dan Richards (YES '99)
Faculty
Vanessa Adams
Marge Allard
Sheila Carey
Lisa Deyo
Mary Drew (Assistant)
Carol Giguere
Vicky Lynde, M.Ed.
Sheila Parker
Dan Richards (YES '99), Incorporator
Doug Robertson
Contractors
Emily MacDuff
Jera Jamison
Deen Leonard
Jen Lambert
Gordon Kramer
Danielle Blanchard
Eric Boughton
Mary King
Greenfield AmeriCorps Program
Melanee Oakes
Michelle Buja
Katie O'Ferrell
Matt Burgoon
Dan Richards
Orange Jobs for Youth Program
David Malave
John Paige
Jeremy Theriault
Travis Reynolds
Willis Capo
John Williamson
Summer Youth Employment & Training Program, WIA
Cooperative Education, Franklin County Technical School
Dave Wiles
Senior AIDE Program
Marsha Vadebonceour
Florence Lachowitz
Sheri Lenois
Welfare-to-Work Program
Kristy Goodwin
Crystal Frates
Joanna Rodriguez
Federal Work-Study Program, UMASS, Amherst
Nate Johnson
Ashley Sanderson
Matt Perkins
Graduate Research Assistants, UMASS, Amherst
Melissa Benoit
Interns
Greg Ellis
Hillary Matalainan
Alex Rabideau
Gabriel Santiago
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