Proud Moment: May Selected for White-Riley Fellowship

Amber May, Programs Director at Operation Shoestring, has been selected among 16 leaders in the field of afterschool and expanded learning nationwide to be named a White-Riley-Peterson Policy Fellow. The White-Riley-Peterson Policy Fellowship is made possible through a partnership between the Riley Institute at Furman University (Greenville, S.C.) and the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation.

May will have an opportunity to play a critical role in the development of state-level afterschool policy plans as a White-Riley-Peterson Policy Fellow.

The new class of White-Riley-Peterson Policy Fellows brings the total number of program participants to 75 since the initiative was launched in 2012.

Through discussion of actual case studies led by policy change-makers, the Fellowship equips graduates with a real world understanding of the art and science of sound policy-making for afterschool and expanded learning. In the 10-month program, which begins in October, Fellows will study afterschool/expanded learning policy and develop and implement state-level policy projects in partnership with their Statewide Afterschool Networks and the national Afterschool Alliance.

The White-Riley-Peterson Policy Fellowship is named for William S. White, President and CEO of the C.S. Mott Foundation; Richard W. Riley, former South Carolina Governor and U.S. Secretary of Education under President Clinton; and Dr. Terry Peterson, National Board Chair with the Afterschool Alliance, Director, Afterschool and Community Learning Network, and senior fellow at the Riley Institute.

“The White-Riley-Peterson Policy Fellowship has matured into a potent force to help move afterschool and expanded learning policy forward across the country,” said Dr. Don Gordon, executive director of the Riley Institute.

For a full listing of the 2016-17 White-Riley-Peterson Policy Fellows, follow this link: http://news.furman.edu/2016/07/05/white-riley-peterson-policy-fellows-named/.