Emerging Leader Fellowship
Sam George was Stoneleigh Foundation's first Emerging Leader Fellow. A native of Philadelphia, he graduated from Oberlin College in 2007 with honors in history. He was awarded the George and Carrie Life Fund Prize for Excellence in American...
Sophia Hwang worked with the Health Federation of Philadelphia's Multiplying Connections initiative to ensure that human services professionals receive training on the effects of trauma in children.
Advances in neuroscience, such as...
Wanja Ogongi joined Community Legal Services, Inc. (CLS) as a Stoneleigh Emerging Leader Fellow. She worked with the Family Advocacy Unit within CLS to examine the high rate of children returning to foster care within one year of being reunified...
Kelly Siegel has joined Public Citizens for Children and Youth (PCCY) as a Stoneleigh Foundation Emerging Leader Fellow. Kelly will be working with PCCY's education colleagues to help advance the implementation of Positive Behavioral...
Arley Styer joined the Education Law Center (ELC) as a Stoneleigh Foundation Emerging Leader Fellow to examine the educational experiences of children taught in group homes, residential treatment facilities (RTF) and day mental health treatment...
Stefany Tobel worked with the Philadelphia Education Fund (Ed Fund) to improve graduation rates for at-risk middle school students.
In 2005, researchers from the Ed Fund and Johns Hopkins University conducted an analysis of 13,000 sixth...
Joslyn Young worked with Research for Action to examine adolescent literacy practices in two area after-school programs where youth gain social literacy skills to become confident writers, readers and producers of media texts. Her goal...