Excellence in Mentoring

MENTOR’s Excellence in Mentoring Awards are an opportunity to recognize outstanding leadership and commitment to supporting youth through mentoring relationships! Presented annually during the National Mentoring Summit, the EIM Awards honor individuals and organizations that have made tremendous contributions to young people and the mentoring field.

The Excellence in Mentoring Awards are presented in these four categories: 

  • Lifetime Achievement: Given to an individual who has dedicated their life’s work to supporting youth through mentoring programs 
  • Corporate Youth Leadership: Given to a young person (up to age 26) who participates or recently participated in a corporate mentoring program or initiative and showed great leadership potential
  • Public Elevation: Given to an influencer who uses their public platform to support mentoring opportunities for youth
  • Public Service: Given to individuals at both the federal and the state/local level as champions in the public sector who support the mission of mentoring. These public servants dedicate their knowledge, time, and platforms to supporting mentoring and encourage adults to become mentors. (We will not be accepting public nominations for this category)

Nominations are now closed, view our winners below!

2024 Excellence in Mentoring Honorees

Darlene Marlin

Lifetime Achievement

Darlene Marlin is the Vice President of Access and Opportunity in the Education & Youth Development Division of the National Urban League. She directs the League’s portfolio of K-16 programs and has decades of experience across the educational continuum, from early childhood to high school transition programs.

Serena Patel

Corporate Youth Leadership

Serena Patel is a Marketing and Customer Success Specialist at Dreami, a groundbreaking software platform revolutionizing career development, and an MBA candidate at Southern Oregon University. Patel leads a women’s corporate mentoring program that has positively impacted more than 2,000 individuals.

Calvin T. Mann

Public Elevation

Calvin T. Mann, the “National Encourager,” is the Founder and President of Encourage Me I’m Young, a non profit which centers on restoring and strengthening the family structure through developing boys and encouraging fathers using prevention and intervention activities. He is also a facilitator, co-host of the podcast Put Your Family First, mentor, coach, author, and community activist.

Mayor Johnson

State & Local Public Service

Mayor Johnson, Milwaukee, WI

Mayor Cavalier Johnson took office as Acting Mayor of the City of Milwaukee in late 2021 and was elected as the city’s forty-fifth chief executive and first Black Mayor in April of 2022. A former mentee himself, Mayor Johnson has supported the mentoring movement in office by supporting a policy that gives city employees paid time off to mentor, supporting MENTOR Greater Milwaukee through city funding and event attendance, and uplifting the importance of mentoring and MENTOR Greater Milwaukee’s work in his inauguration speech.

Sheldon Whitehouse

Federal Public Service

The Honorable Sheldon Whitehouse, U.S. Senate, Rhode Island

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse has earned a reputation in the Senate as a thoughtful legislator capable of reaching across the aisle to achieve bipartisan solutions. He has been a steadfast supporter of the mentoring movement, advocating to secure grant funding for MENTOR Rhode Island from the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, serving as one of the lead sponsors of the 2018 bipartisan overhaul of the federal juvenile justice system, and offering internships in his congressional office to MENTOR Rhode Island mentees

Frequently Asked Questions

All nominations must be submitted by October 13, 2023, at 11:59 PM EST.

There is no cost to nominate someone for the Excellence in Mentoring Awards, and nominators are encouraged to submit as many different candidates for nominations as they would like.

Nominees in the Corporate Youth Leadership category must be under 26. Individual nominees in all other categories must be 18 or older.

Excellence in Mentoring Award winners are responsible for the cost of their own travel to Washington, D.C. for the National Mentoring Summit. MENTOR will cover the cost of admission to the Summit for each winner and a guest, as well as two nights at the Summit hotel.

Please reach out to summit@mentoring.org with any other questions.

Past Excellence in Mentoring Honorees

William Pitts

Lifetime Achievement

William C. Pitts (“Elder Bill” to all at Life Pieces To Masterpieces) has been a mentor for youth for nearly 50 years. In 1976, he started his career with the Bureau of Rehabilitation, providing services to DC Youth involved in the Juvenile Court System. He assisted them with forming healthy relationships and interacting effectively with self and others in an effort to achieve and maintain a sense of well being and positive identity. In 2001, he became the Residential Manager with Covenant House Washington Crisis Center, providing services to homeless youth.

Mr. Pitts has been a member of the Life Pieces To Masterpieces (LPTM) team since 2008, where he came out of retirement at the urging of community leaders and young people together. His moniker, Elder Bill, is in recognition of his own pride in his eldership – he celebrated his 80th birthday in December 2022 surrounded by LPTM youth, alumni, and community leaders throughout Washington, DC. His name is also in recognition of the responsibility he holds within himself, to be an example to the young people in his life, every hour of every day. At Life Pieces, he provides individual and group counseling sessions to the Black boys and men which LPTM serve, leads restorative justice efforts with youth and families, and supports all families as a partner in their child(ren)’s education, development, or mental and emotional health. For a brief time, he additionally served as LPTM’s Director of Operations and Programs when the organization was in need of additional stability in its infrastructure.

Elder Bill has received numerous awards throughout his career including the DC Association of Youth and Child Care Worker’s Presidential Award; Distinguished Services Award from the Inter-Association Child Care Workers and Award of Appreciation from the Bureau of Rehabilitation. He also served on the Board of Directors for the Consortium for Youth Services and held the office of president of the DC Association of Youth and Child Care Workers. He holds Bachelor’s Degrees in Psychology from the University of the District of Columbia.

Elder Bill is a lifelong learner, and believes that all mentors must be learners as much as they are teachers. He understands and shares with the youth the principles of ubuntu, that “I am who I am because of who we are together.” He stewards that principle with all the values at Life Pieces To Masterpieces, a comprehensive youth developing and mentoring organization in Washington, DC, that harnesses the power of creative expression to develop character and leadership, unlock potential, and prepare Black boys and young men to transform their lives and communities. He is a leader at LPTM, where Black boys change how they see themselves; the world changes how it sees Black boys and men; where these Black boys and young men are protagonists changing the world’s understanding of our shared humanity. With this mission and unique culture of environment, Elder Bill has co-facilitated human development workshops for artists, activists, educators, and policy-makers locally, nationally, and with citizens of 40+ countries alongside Life Pieces To Masterpieces.

Anne Naqi

Impactful Philanthropy

Anne Naqi is the Vice President & Chief Human Resources Officer at Equitrans Midstream Corporation, a role she has held since 2019, President, Equitrans Midstream Foundation and is Chair of the Board of The Mentoring Partnership of Southwest Pennsylvania, where she has been a board member since 2017. Prior to her time at Equitrans, she held human resources leadership roles at Westinghouse Electric Company, United States Steel Corporation, and EQT Corporation. She is a past board member of the Fund for Advancement of Minorities through Education (FAME) and the Sewickley Valley YMCA.

Naqi’s support for mentorship began early in her career when she joined the leadership team of EQT’s ASPIRE mentoring program, which, at the time, was struggling due to lack of mentor and board member interest. ASPIRE, which is now supported through the Equitrans Midstream Foundation, is a mentoring program that pairs local students with company employees who serve as mentors. During an eleven-year period, Naqi revitalized the program by spearheading company financial support and mentor recruitment efforts and guided ASPIRE to become an affiliate of the organization’s charitable Foundation. When nominating Naqi for the Excellence in Mentoring Award, Colleen Fedor, Executive Director of the Mentoring Partnership of Southwest Pennsylvania, wrote, “Anne Naqi is an exceptional supporter of mentoring. Anne’s commitment to the ASPIRE program directly impacts hundreds of young people, and she has been instrumental in the program’s sustainability.” Under her leadership as ASPIRE President, more than 165 students have come through the ASPIRE program and 51 students have received $10,000 scholarships.

Marques Colston

Public Elevation

Marques Colston is a former New Orleans Saints wide receiver and a member of the New Orleans Saints Hall of Fame. During his time with the Saints, he was the all-time franchise leader in receptions, receiving yards, and total touchdowns.

His game-changing methodology of ‘Creating Separation’ is the paradigm shift that has propelled him to overcome adversity and experience seemingly unattainable accomplishments as an unlikely NFL superstar, as well as an owner, partner, investor, and strategic advisor to dozens of businesses and organizations.

A champion for ‘underestimated and undervalued’ talent, Marques supports athletes, entrepreneurs, and executives as an Executive Coach and Strategic Business Advisor, helping clients unlock sustainable professional success and financial freedom that leads to legacy. He started Separation Playbook, a professional development and enrichment platform that democratizes access to his proven mental models and strategic frameworks, diagnostic tools, and coaching services. Additionally, he launched Venture Investing and Entrepreneurship for Professional Athletes, an executive education program for current and former professional athletes at the prestigious Columbia Business School, and teaches leadership and entrepreneurship to undergraduate students at the University of New Orleans as an adjunct professor.

His philanthropic work includes a partnership with his alma mater, Hofstra University to create the Marques Colston Fellowship. The program provides experiential learning opportunities for student-athletes in health majors. Additionally, he serves on the Board of Directors at Son of a Saint and Corporate Internship Leadership Institute (CILI) and advisory council for the Lemelson Center’s Change Your Game exhibition.

Since 2020, Colston has served as an ambassador for Son of a Saint, a youth development nonprofit organization dedicated to transforming the lives of fatherless young males through mentorship, emotional support, development of life skills, exposure to constructive experiences, and formation of positive, lasting peer-to-peer relationships. As an ambassador, in 2020 Colston launched “Receiving Game,” a six-week enrichment program focused on applying life skills and key personal development principles to their future outlooks at a pivotal time in their adolescent development.

Of his work with Son of a Saint, Colston says, ” As a son who lost my father during my teenage years, I understand many of the challenges these young men face. It is an honor and privilege to work with this great organization to serve these young men as they transform into community leaders.” He will continue his work with Son a Saint, in 2023 and beyond, as a board director.

Pritika Kharkwal

Corporate Youth Leadership

Pritika Kharkwal is a 10th grader from Lebanon Trail High School of Frisco ISD in Texas, and she is the student representative at Frisco ISD’s legislative leadership committee. She strives to serve the community and completed 132 hours of volunteer work in 9th grade and received the Ambassador level 2022-2023 National Community Service Award for UN goals. Pritika’s IHL – CPR campaigns and volunteer work at Red Cross qualified her for the Gold Presidential Volunteer Services Award. Pritika’s mentoring journey with Step Up, a nonprofit organization for girls’ success, began in early 2022. She attended many virtual corporate field trips to meet with business executives and further got selected to participate in an Experienceship program with Home Depot and pursue mentorship opportunities. She was then chosen to present at the ‘Experienceship Capstone Celebration’ to an audience of corporate volunteers and peers. After that, she was selected to serve on a “Truth Talk” panel moderated by television and film star Julie Bowen at Step Up’s annual digital summit fundraiser. She has also worked with Step Up staff to identify opportunities to bring Step Up to her own school campus and recruit peers to join. Step Up staff noted, “Ever since she joined her first event with us…she has been one of our organization’s most active, enthusiastic, and dedicated teen members”. In 2022, Pritika also led a winning team under the category of UN Goal 4 – students’ education at a JPMorgan Chase’s corporate event “Generation Tech”. She has founded the ‘Girls Who Code club’ at her school for girls’ empowerment. Pritika is a mental health advocate and plans to write a book in this field for teens. When asked about her goals for the future, Pritika says, “My career objective is to go above and beyond in the field of law, business, data and technology with servant leadership, empathy and collaboration”. Her vision is to have a positive impact in society, and she believes mentoring and win-win mindset are the enablers to realize her vision.

Rep. Don Bacon

Federal Public Service

Representative Don Bacon (Nebraska 02)

Rep. Bacon has dedicated his life to public service, first during his nearly 30-year career in the Air Force and then serving as a military advisor before running to represent the 2nd Congressional district of Nebraska in 2016. Rep. Bacon credits his mentor for encouraging him to join the military, which launched his career and eventual election to Congress.

During his time in Congress, Rep. Bacon has served as a champion for mentoring and, in particular, youth in foster care. He serves on the Congressional Youth Mentoring Caucus and co-leads the Congressional Caucus on Foster Youth. He is a lead sponsor of the Foster Youth Mentoring Act, a bill that would provide quality, highly-trained mentors to young people with experience in foster care. Finally, he has long been a key supporter of the Youth Mentoring Grant, and co-sponsors the Youth Workforce Readiness Act, which would expand mentoring services through career exploration programming in out-of-school time programs.

Rep. Chynah Tyler

State & Local Public Service

Representative Chynah Tyler (Massachusetts 07 – Suffolk)

Rep. Tyler was born and raised in Roxbury, Mass. which established a special place in her heart for the district.  She credits programs offered to her as a youth with an authentic sense of pride as a Roxbury native. This pride inspires her to effectively represent the residents of Boston.

Rep. Tyler earned her Bachelors of Science in Criminal Justice with a minor in Law, Policy, and Society from Northeastern University. She began her career as a case manager for federal inmates assisting those nearing release with securing employment, housing, and most importantly, community support. It was here where she grew to understand the importance of the role state government plays in delivering valuable resources to the most vulnerable populations. In 2016, at just 26 years old, Tyler ran a successful campaign to succeed long-time incumbent for the Massachusetts House of Representatives, representing the 7th Suffolk District. She is currently serving her 4th term as a Massachusetts state representative, and is the vice chair of the Judiciary Committee and chair of the Black and Latino Caucus.

In this role, Rep. Tyler champions mentoring issues and works collaboratively with Mass Mentoring Partnership to effectively support the needs of youth in her district.

Daryle Cobb

Lifetime Achievement

Franklin County Children Services

The Lifetime Achievement Award is given to an individual who has dedicated their life’s work to supporting youth through mentoring.

This year’s award winner is Daryle Cobb. For three decades, Daryle has demonstrated profound dedication to supporting youth with opportunities and connections. Daryle’s career has been centered on ensuring the safety, permanency, and well-being of Franklin County Ohio’s most vulnerable youth as a caseworker, an emancipation worker, kinship care worker, and director of the Simba Mentoring program. Simba Mentoring is a mentoring program with culturally focused and enriching programming that matches Black boys involved with the child welfare system with Black male mentors. Daryle has also been a mentor with Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Ohio for three mentees over 25 years and is a former “Mentor of the Year” through the Central Ohio Mentoring Association. Even after these matches formally ended, Daryle’s mentees have continued to call on him for advice and support and to celebrate successes that were sometimes only possible because he taught them to believe in themselves. Even when he is “off the clock,” Daryle is on, talking with families and stakeholders at events, sometimes answering phone calls at all hours, and putting his heart into every interaction and every engagement. Once Daryle signs up with a youth, the rule is this: win or lose, succeed or fail, he will be there because he believes in who they are and that their mistakes will not define them. When other people scattered, Daryle showed up — and that is mentoring at its most powerful.

Sanah Jivani

Corporate Youth Leadership

The Love Your Natural Self Foundation

The Corporate Youth Leadership Award is presented to a young person who has participated in a corporate mentoring initiative and shown great leadership potential.

This year’s award winner is Sanah Jivani. Sanah is a dual degree graduate from The University of Pennsylvania, where she received a M.S. in Non-Profit Leadership and an M.S.E.d. Education, Culture and Society. Currently, she works as the Community Engagement Manager at Generation Hope, focusing on building community partnerships, recruiting mentors and promoting college access. Sanah has spent the last few years both engaging in and leading corporate mentoring initiatives, beginning in high school, where she was selected as one of thirty young people around the nation to be a part of the State Farm Youth Advisory Board. Through this opportunity, she worked with young people to allocate 5 million dollars of State Farms philanthropy budget to organizations around the nation. She was selected as the United States Delegate for Girls20, the only platform for young women to influence decisions of the G20, and has recently been involved with a corporate mentoring initiative at Bain & Company where she has been bringing virtual mental health and anti-bullying assemblies to students during the COVID-19 pandemic. She is also the founder and CEO of a non-profit organization called The Love Your Natural Self Foundation, which focuses on empowering individuals through events, mentors and hands-on sessions. She started this organization after losing all of her hair to alopecia in the seventh grade and struggling with bullying and low self-worth. Now, her non-profit organization hosts projects in 150 schools and 28 countries worldwide, including the International Day of Self-Love. She has reached over 50,000 students through speaking engagements, sharing her powerful personal story as inspiration for others. At age 24, Sanah has displayed countless examples of personal courage and steadfast advocacy for mentoring, which perhaps are best described in her own words: “Turn adversity into the opportunity to serve others.”

Stacey Ullrich

Impactful Philanthropy

Head of Global Community Impact, Under Armour and Executive Director, Under Armour Foundation 

Prior to joining Under Armour, Stacey held positions with Constellation Energy, PW Feats,  Earl Beckwith & Associates, and the PGA TOUR. As part of her philanthropic efforts, she serves on the Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation, Center Club, iMentor, Project Pnuema, Ronald McDonald House Charities of Baltimore, Inc. and University Systems of Maryland Foundation board. Stacey has been a key figure in the mentoring movement in Baltimore. From supporting MENTOR MD|DC since its inception to supporting mentoring at a number of high schools and grassroots programs throughout Baltimore City, Stacey has made mentoring a cornerstone of her personal and professional life and led Under Armour in making mentorship a priority focus. Most recently, she supported mentor recruitment at Under Armour’s headquarters in support of a newly launched mentoring initiative for 9th grade students at several Baltimore high schools. Additionally, she supports a number of internal mentoring initiatives at Under Armour designed to encourage and engage young professionals. Stacey has also been active in engaging the local youth development and mentoring program field by speaking at a number of funders panels and roundtables, to provide even greater awareness into the need to fund grassroots and community-based programs.

Jamal Stroud

Public Elevation

Big Homie Lil Homie Mentoring and Camp HOPE America

The Public Elevation Award is given to an individual or organization who uses their influence and public platform to encourage, support and draw awareness to mentoring.

This year’s award goes to Jamal Stroud, founder of Big Homie Lil Homie Mentoring, a mentoring program for young boys growing up without father figures. On a national level, Jamal works as the Mentor and Outreach Manager for Camp HOPE America where he provides technical assistance to 40 different programs throughout the United States. Jamal has been recognized locally and nationally for the lasting impact he’s had on more than 10,000 youth, offering support and positive male role models for young people in South Carolina. Jamal’s personal experience growing up in the foster care system and living in six different homes by the time he was six years old led him to the frontlines of improving and advocating for youth. Jamal has been a guest on The Ellen Show and has received numerous awards, including winning the prestigious Jefferson Award.

Mary Gay Scanlon

Federal Public Sevice

The Honorable Mary Gay Scanlon, U.S. House of Representatives, Pennsylvania-05

At the federal level, this year’s Public Service Award goes to Representative Mary Gay Scanlon, a true champion for mentoring on Capitol Hill. Representative Scanlon has dedicated her career to serving the most vulnerable — first as a lawyer and now in Congress. She was first sworn into the U.S. House of Representatives in 2018 following a special election, and currently represents Pennsylvania’s 5th Congressional District. Rep. Scanlon’s legislative priorities include voting rights, access to justice, education, supporting economic growth for her region, common sense gun safety and ending hunger. Rep. Scanlon is a mentor herself and serves as the chair of the Congressional Youth Mentoring Caucus, which works to advance support for the mentoring movement on Capitol Hill through events, networking and legislative action.

Ned Lamont

State & Local Public Service

The Honorable Ned Lamont, Governor of Connecticut

At the state level, this year’s Public Service Award goes to Governor Ned Lamont of Connecticut.

Governor Lamont has been a steadfast advocate of mentoring in his state. During COVID-19, he has added mentoring as a volunteer opportunity to the StateUpCT portal, connecting almost 200 more mentors to young people during a time of crisis. Additionally, he serves as the co-chair of the board of The Governor’s Prevention Partnership (MENTOR’s Affiliate in Connecticut), and is an active participant in events elevating mentoring across the state. Governor Lamont often speaks affectionately about this time as a volunteer teacher at a high school in his state where he shared his knowledge of small business ownership and helped connect students to local internships.

Jaya Dayal

2020 Bank of America Student Leader
2021 Corporate Youth Leadership Honoree

Jaya Dayal grew up in Orlando, Florida, and graduated from Lake Highland Preparatory School in 2020. In her sophomore year, she began volunteering at the Boys and Girls Club of Central Florida (BGCCF) with a friend who was starting an after-school tutoring program at a nearby branch. After being recommended to apply to the program by a staff member working with the Bank of America (BofA) Student Leaders Program, Jaya applied for the program. She was selected as a leader for the Orlando market in 2020 and worked with the market’s three other leaders to create content for BGCCF’s Cyber-Clubhouse. Jaya’s work with BGCCF sparked her interest in the issues of youth in under resourced communities, leading her to take a gap year before starting her public health degree at UNC Chapel Hill to work with City Year, an AmeriCorps program that provides mentorship and classroom assistance in underprivileged schools. Jaya’s passion for public health and youth extends to her other community service commitments, specifically with Thirst Project, a youth-focused non-profit working to end inaccessibility to clean water. Jaya led a Thirst Project-affiliated club in high school and has continued working with the nonprofit group throughout her gap year.

New York Life Foundation

2021 Impactful Philanthropy Honoree

Inspired by New York Life’s tradition of service and humanity, the New York Life Foundation has, since its founding in 1979, provided nearly $360 million in charitable contributions to national and local nonprofit organizations. The Foundation supports programs that benefit young people, particularly in the areas of educational enhancement and childhood bereavement. The Foundation also encourages and facilitates the community involvement of employees and agents of New York Life through its Volunteers for Good program and Grief-Sensitive Schools Initiative. To learn more, please visit www.newyorklifefoundation.org.

Melody Rodriguez

Proyecto MoLe Director, Leadership Foundations
2021 Lifetime Achievement Honoree

Melody Rodriguez is the founder and director of Proyecto MoLE, a Latino student support program under the Leadership Foundations that exist to inspire, prepare and mobilize Latino youth and young adults as leaders in their communities since 2007. She has spent the last 27 years supporting youth in Tacoma to realize their potential and see that they are a vital part of the community. Her belief in mentoring, keeping it real, having high expectations and building lasting relationships provide the foundation of her work. In addition to her work with Proyecto MoLE, Melody has worked with College Success Foundation serving as the College Preparatory Advisor for the Achievers program at Mount Tahoma High School since 2012 and serves as one of CSF’s post-secondary access strategists for Beyond the Diploma 2021. Melody has an undergraduate degree in Sociology from Central Washington University and a Masters of Public Administration from Evergreen State College.

Milwaukee Bucks

2021 Public Elevation Honoree

As a major tentpole in the Wisconsin community, the Milwaukee Bucks are dedicated to using their platform to improve outcomes for underserved populations throughout the state. Since 2016, the Milwaukee Bucks Foundation has donated more than $2 million dollars in grants to youth-serving organizations across the state, including over $500,000 to support existing mentoring programs. In 2019, the Bucks, in partnership with Milwaukee Public Schools and the City of Milwaukee, launched MENTOR Greater Milwaukee – a non-profit focused on increasing the number of quality mentoring relationships while supporting the network of mentoring programs that exist. Over the years, current and former Bucks players have partnered with local organizations to promote the importance to mentoring and support mentors/mentees in various initiatives. Milwaukee Bucks staff have also served as mentors through in-office youth mentoring programs and have participated in countless mentoring sessions with youth throughout the community.

U.S. Senator Cory Booker

2021 Public Service – Federal Honoree

Senator Cory Booker received his undergraduate and master’s degree from Stanford University. He was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship and went on to study at the University of Oxford and Yale Law School. He served as mayor of Newark, New Jersey from 2006 until 2013. During his tenure, the city experienced massive economic growth. In addition, under his leadership, overall crime declined, affordable housing and green spaces massively expanded, city services were made more efficient, and educational opportunities increased. He also supported the development of MENTOR Newark (formerly the Newark Mentoring Movement) in 2012. He partnered with MENTOR Newark to increase the number of mentors paired with young people in the city. In 2013, he was elected to the United States Senate, where he has brought an innovative and consensus-building approach to tackling some of the most difficult problems facing New Jersey and our country. He has emerged as a national leader in the effort to fix our broken criminal justice system and end mass incarceration, helping craft the most sweeping set of criminal justice reforms in a generation, the First Step Act, which became law in 2018. Senator Booker sits on the Judiciary Committee, the Foreign Relations Committee, the Environment and Public Works Committee, and the Small Business Committee.

Charlene Russell-Tucker

Deputy Commissioner, CT State Department of Education
2021 Public Service – State & Local Honoree

Charlene Russell-Tucker is the Deputy Commissioner of Education for the Connecticut State Department of Education, a role in which she oversees educational supports and wellness priorities. Prior to her appointment as Deputy Commissioner in November 2019, she served as Chief Operating Officer and Division Chief for the Department’s Office of Student Supports and Organizational Effectiveness. She also served as Associate Commissioner of Education and Bureau Chief within the Department overseeing a portfolio of programs and services that included student health, nutrition and safety, adult education, special education, magnet and charter schools. She is a performance-driven and visionary education leader with over 20 years’ experience in successfully leveraging the inter-connectedness of the social, emotional, physical and mental health of students and their families as foundations for positive school and life outcomes. She passionately supports family and community engagement in education and leads school attendance and school discipline initiatives with intensive focus on equity and diversity. In 2015, Ms. Russell-Tucker was named to the inaugural class of 100 Women of Color in Connecticut. In 2018, she was welcomed to the Campaign for Grade-Level Reading’s Council of Champions. On a personal note, Ms.Russell-Tucker believes in finding and fulfilling one’s life’s purpose.

Elycia Cook

FRIENDS FIRST

President & CEO, FRIENDS FIRST Inc.
2020 LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT HONOREE

Elycia Cook is the President & CEO of FRIENDS FIRST (FF), a non-profit organization that serves students, their parents and communities by educating and mentoring teens to make positive life choices and develop healthy relationships. She has been with FRIENDS FIRST since 2008. Elycia has fifteen years of experience with positive youth development programs and has managed multi-million dollar budgets. In 2012, FF began the transformation from a singular approach of primary prevention of teen pregnancy to Positive Youth Development focusing on social emotional wellness and a whole-health, whole-child approach while becoming an evidence-informed mentoring organization. STARS (Students Teaching About Relationships and Success) is our signature program where the most vulnerable youth are viewed through an asset-based lens, supported in becoming the change they want to see in their own communities, and helps solve the mentoring crisis as more teens have mentors today and  are becoming a pipeline of future mentors. Elycia led FF in trademarking MentorLife, which means to always have someone investing in you and always invest in someone else. Today FRIENDS FIRST STARS peer mentoring program is in 10 states, more than 40 schools, and is one of the premier peer mentoring organizations in the country.

Elizabeth Gurney

KeyBank/First Niagara Foundation

Director of Corporate Philanthropy, KeyBank and Executive Director, First Niagara Foundation
2020 CORPORATE LEADERSHIP HONOREE

Elizabeth S. Gurney is Director of Corporate Philanthropy at KeyBank and responsible for managing the KeyBank Foundation. Gurney guides KeyBank’s strategic philanthropic investments across the enterprise with a focus on education, neighborhood prosperity, workforce development and community service. In 2016, Gurney joined KeyBank following the acquisition of First Niagara Bank. She continues to serve as Executive Director of the First Niagara Foundation, an independent private foundation working collaboratively with KeyBank in its mission to empower individuals and neighborhoods through strategic investments in education, mentoring, workforce development, and neighborhood revitalization with giving focused primarily in Western New York. The First Niagara Foundation is a “spend down” fund with a targeted end date of 2022. Hired in 2011 as the first Executive Director of the First Niagara Foundation, Gurney developed and created the organizational and procedural structure for the Foundation, and continues to oversee its management, investments and administration. At First Niagara Bank, Gurney was responsible for formulating policies and developing long-range planning initiatives for corporate social responsibility across First Niagara’s Northeast footprint. She also directed employee volunteer activities, provided leadership for the corporate United Way campaign, managed the signature Mentoring Matters℠ program, and partnered with the community development team to oversee community investments, philanthropy and service. Actively working to make a positive impact on the community, Gurney serves in a leadership position on several boards including the Children’s Foundation, the Josephine Goodyear Foundation and the Buffalo Sabres Foundation. Previous board experience includes the Center for Hospice and Palliative Care, WNY Grantmakers and Goodwill Industries.

Indiana State Senator Eddie Melton

2020 PUBLIC ELEVATION HONOREE

Eddie Melton was elected State Senator for Indiana’s 3rd District on November 8, 2016. Melton serves as the Ranking Minority Member on the Senate Education Committee and in 2017 was appointed Deputy Chairman of the Indiana Democratic Party. In addition to serving in the Indiana General Assembly, Melton serves as the manager of Corporate Citizen and Employee Engagement for Northern Indiana Public Service Company (NIPSCO) where he developed the IN-POWER Mentoring program, an initiative designed to teach students about the energy sector. Eddie is also the founder of The Mentoring Trust, a non-profit organization designed to help organizations build and design mentoring programs for youth.

Melton has been recognized with multiple awards and accolades, such as; the top “20 Under 40” young professionals in Northwest Indiana by the NWI Times Media Company (2010) and is a (2012) South Shore Leadership Award winner and Legislator of the Year by the Indiana Association of Rehabilitation Facilities. Melton was elected by lawmakers from around the country to serve on the Executive Committee of the National Conference of State Legislators. He is a member of the Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Inc. and received a B.S. of Organizational Management from Calumet College of St. Joseph.

Robert and Janice McNair Educational Foundation

2020 IMPACTFUL PHILANTHROPY  HONOREE

Robert and Janice McNair started the Robert and Janice McNair Educational Foundation in 1989 in an effort to increase the number of students in Rutherford County, North Carolina who pursued postsecondary education. Realizing the student needs required an individualized approach, the Foundation began a mentoring program for students at one county high school. In 2009, the mentor program was expanded to include every 9th-12th grade students in three county high schools. In 2016, the program was expanded again to include all 7th and 8th graders in three feeder middle schools. Currently, over 200 adult volunteer mentors serve approximately 3,500 7th – 12th grade students, meeting with mentees individually throughout the school year to focus on academic progress as well as college and career awareness and readiness. Additionally, building on the success of this mentor program, in April of this year, the Foundation implemented a new mentor program for recent Rutherford County Schools’ graduates who are pursuing postsecondary education. Approximately 25 Rutherford County Schools and Foundation alumni are mentoring over 140 current college students in an effort to increase postsecondary success for our students.

Fred Skolnik, Partner, Certilman Balin Adler & Hyman, LLP

Corporate Leadership

Partner, Certilman Balin Adler & Hyman, LLP Fred Skolnik is a partner in the Corporate/Securities Law Practice Group of Certilman Balin Adler & Hyman, an East Meadow, New York law firm. Fred established the firm’s Long Island corporate and securities law practice in 1987 after many years of practice in the firm’s New York City office. A frequent speaker on topics related to corporate and securities law, Fred has served the Nassau County Bar Association as Chair of both the Corporation Law Committee and the Securities Law Committee. Fred’s practice relates primarily to the representation of public and private companies in connection with equity and debt financings, mergers and acquisitions, securities transactions, and general corporate and business matters. Fred is a member of the Board of Directors of Mentor New York, which creates and supports mentoring programs throughout New York State. He also serves on the Board of Directors of Farmingdale College Foundation, which provides financial assistance, including scholarships, for Farmingdale State College programs and projects not funded by the New York State budget. Fred is a co-founder and the administrator of LIKE (Lawyers Involved in Kids’ Education), a program that establishes mentoring relationships between attorneys and potentially “at-risk” elementary school students and seeks to develop analytical and vocabulary skills, confidence and self-esteem in the mentees through word and number games.

Genentech

Impactful Philanthropy

Genentech is a leading biotechnology company that discovers, develops, manufactures and commercializes medicines to treat patients with serious or life-threatening medical conditions. Making medicines is just one way that Genentech makes a difference – employees are passionate about applying their skills, time and resources to positively impact the patients they serve, the scientific community, and the places where they live and work. For over a decade, Genentech has been an active supporter of the mentoring movement. In 2008 Genentech launched Gene Academy, which provides weekly after-school mentoring to third through fifth graders from the South San Francisco Unified School District (SSFUSD). Each student has two dedicated Genentech volunteer mentors and together they work on homework or participate in hands-on experiments designed to spark enthusiasm for science. Throughout the past 10 years, 2,000 employees have mentored more than 1,000 students. More recently, Gene Academy mentors began moving beyond purely academic support to include social and emotional skills training. These learning opportunities help students to develop a growth mindset, which is something Genentech mentors have also found valuable to their own personal and career development. With the success of Gene Academy, Genentech decided to double down on its efforts by reaching kids in middle and high school. In 2015, Genentech launched Futurelab – a $25 million investment in a hyper-local, public-private partnership with the SSFUSD. Futurelab is helping to address some of the significant challenges faced by SSFUSD students by providing opportunities for hands-on engagement in STEM and valuable employee-student mentoring at key points in students’ education.

Kenneth Ward, Executive Director, College Bound, Inc.

Lifetime Achievement

Executive Director, College Bound, Inc. Kenneth Ward is currently the Executive Director of College Bound, Inc. in Washington, D.C. As a Fulbright Memorial scholar in Japan and a seasoned D.C. educator and administrator for 15 years, he has been instrumental in creating academic and personal enrichment programs for students. Since 2000, he has taken participants on life-changing international trips annually where they explore their historical and cultural roots; visiting schools, universities, local villages, and slave castles. He has participated in the International Teacher Exchange program where he studied best practices in Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia and has also volunteered in Ethiopia. Kenneth holds a Bachelor’s degree in communications from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he matriculated on a Pogue Scholarship and a Master’s degree in education from Trinity University. He was hired as the Executive Director of College Bound in 2009. During his tenure at College Bound, he has opened three workplace mentoring sites and implemented a Virtual Mentoring Program designed to support the program’s alumni to college degree completion. Under his leadership, College Bound has increased the amount of scholarship dollars awarded more than 200% and more than tripled the number of students served by College Bound. Kenneth participated in the Nonprofit Management Executive Certificate Program at Georgetown and was bestowed the 2012 Harvey Elliott Beech Outstanding Alumni Award from the University of North Carolina for his outstanding personal achievements that reflect well upon him, his community and the university. Kenneth returns often to his hometown of Enfield, N.C. to create opportunities to educate and expose local youth to cultural and educational activities. He knows first-hand the power of education and works to erase the achievement gap. He serves on the Advisory Board at UNC for the Learning and Writing Center and is an active member of the Perry Community Center Services Center and Achievement Prep Academic boards. A life member of Kappa Alpha Psi, Fraternity, Inc, Mr. Ward most recently received the 2017 UNC Alumni Diversity Award.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel, City of Chicago

Impactful Philanthropy

City of Chicago Rahm Emanuel is the 55th mayor of the City of Chicago. Since his election in 2011, Mayor Emanuel has led major investments across education, mentorship, youth programming, neighborhood development, transportation, infrastructure, public health, and public safety. Over Mayor Emanuel’s tenure, Chicago’s students have experienced record education gains, while the city has led the nation in corporate relocations for five consecutive years, and led the nation in foreign direct-investment for six consecutive years. Mayor Emanuel has also marked record progress in reducing Chicago’s structural deficit from $635.6 million in 2012 to $97.9 million for 2019 – the lowest it has been since 2007. Previously, Mayor Emanuel served as White House Chief of Staff for President Barack Obama, three terms in the U.S. House of Representatives representing Illinois’ 5th District, and was a key member of the Clinton White House. He is married to Amy Rule, and they have three children.

Eddie Gale

The A. D. Henderson Foundation

Vermont Program Director for The A. D. Henderson Foundation Eddie Gale has been the Vermont Program Director for The A. D. Henderson Foundation since 2001. During that time, the Henderson Foundation has taken a nurturing approach to grant making, allowing Gale to work closely with applicants to think through their projects, link their actions to outcomes, scheme about other funding opportunities and clearly articulate exactly what it is they wanted to do. Gale and the Henderson Foundation partnered closely with the Permanent Fund for Vermont’s Children to couple best practices and financial support for Vermont’s mentoring organizations. In 2012 when Mobius, a regional mentoring network in Vermont’s largest county, was in danger of closing its doors, Gale and the Henderson Foundation collaborated with philanthropic partners the Permanent Fund, the Vermont Community Foundation, and several local mentoring organizations, to recreate Mobius as a state wide mentoring support network. Gale joined Mobius’s board of directors until a broader coalition of business, education, and mentoring leaders could take over governance of the organization. The Henderson Foundation has continued to support Mobius’s model of grant making to local mentoring organizations, partnering with the Vermont Agency of Human Services and holding local organizations accountable for excellence while raising the visibility of mentoring statewide.

Jamal Joseph

IMPACT Repertory Theatre

Executive Artistic Director & Founder, IMPACT Repertory Theatre
Jamal Joseph is an American writer, director, producer, poet, activist, and educator. Joseph was a member of the Black Panther Party. He was prosecuted as one of the Panther 21. He spent six years incarcerated at Leavenworth Penitentiary. Joseph served 5½ years in Leavenworth, where he earned two college degrees and wrote his first play. To date, he has written five plays and two volumes of poetry. He earned his BA summa cum laude from the University of Kansas while at Leavenworth. His first position after incarceration was at Touro College, in East Harlem. While there, he was instrumental in arranging for historic graduation ceremonies at the Apollo Theatre with a graduation address by Ossie Davis, preceded by a spectacular Graduation Procession down the middle of 125th Street. He is a full professor and former chair of Columbia University’s Graduate Film Division and the artistic director of the New Heritage Theatre Group in Harlem. He has been featured on HBO’s Def Poetry Jam, the PBS film The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, BET’s American Gangster and on Tupac Shakur’s The Rose That Grew from Concrete Volumes 1 and 2. He is the author of the interactive biography on Tupac Shakur, Tupac Shakur Legacy. Joseph was nominated for a 2008 Academy Award in the Best Song category for his contributions to the song “Raise It Up”, performed by IMPACT Repertory Theatre and Jamia Nash in the 2007 film August Rush. His memoir Panther Baby was published in February 2012 by Algonquin Books.

David Milliken

Hutton Settlement Children’s Home

Director in Residence, Hutton Settlement Children’s Home David Milliken joined the Hutton Settlement Children’s Home in June 1997 and has since served in various child welfare roles including case management, education, and organizational leadership. His formal education in psychology and leadership provides the foundation for his work in youth development and community resilience. Specifically, Milliken focuses on fostering lasting lifelong connections with youth who have faced family hardship and displacement in the Inland Northwest. In 2005, he founded the SALUTE program on the Hutton Settlement campus to provide sustainability education, creative arts, and leadership development for all residents. Over the years, the program has exposed the youth to local food justice efforts through the campus farm, global social action projects in Thailand and Mexico, and various outdoor adventures throughout the Pacific Northwest. Milliken currently serves as the director in residence at the Hutton Settlement Children’s Home with a focus on developing a transformational community of care.

Sergeant Mamie Lanford Singleton

Youth Initiative Mentoring Academies

Founder and Director, Youth Initiative Mentoring Academies (YIMA) Sergeant Mamie Lanford Singleton was born in Winsboro, SC. Sgt. Singleton retired after 29 + years serving in patrol, investigative, and administrative divisions of the St. Paul Police Department. Sgt. Singleton was one of the first African American females in Minnesota law enforcement and served as one of the first female field training officers. She then worked in Washington, DC with Homeland Security. She studied in the Criminal Justice program at St. Thomas College, Southern Police Institute, Louisville, KY, Concordia College, Saint Paul, and U of M. Active in church and community, Sgt. Singleton is the founder and director of the non-profit Youth Initiative Mentoring Academies (YIMA) which partners law enforcement and community adult mentors with at-risk youth in mentoring and Aviation Flight Training. She invests retirement funds and personal resources to ensure the needs of YIMA are met and to provide a brighter and better future for the youth. She’s a founding member of the Ramsey County Community Sentencing Program, co-founder of the African American Breast Cancer Alliance of Minnesota, board member of the Minnesota Association of Black Physicians, a licensed Evangelist Missionary, and past Assistant District Missionary of the Capitol City District, MN Jurisdictional C.O.G.I.C. St. Paul’s Mayor presented Sgt. Singleton with the City’s Karl Neid award in 2002. Sgt. Singleton owns and operates a private investigative firm licensed in Minnesota.

Barbara Gage

The Carlson Family Foundation

President & Chairperson, The Carlson Family Foundation Gage is a regular attendee of the annual Minnesota Mentoring Conference where she attends the full day of workshops and networks with the community. She supported the Minnesota Mentoring Partnership’s idea to create an online program assessment based on best practices for mentoring programs and served on the advisory committee while allowing mentoring practitioners the autonomy to guide creation of the tool. The result was the QMAP, a quality assessment tool that is being used to support the development of the national QMS at MENTOR.

Julie Magallanes Guevara

Catholic Big Brothers Big Sisters

Director of Strategic Partnerships & Special Events, Catholic Big Brothers Big Sisters
Magallanes Guevara was a founding member and chairperson for the Latino Advisory Board to Big Brothers Big Sisters of Los Angeles and the National Big Brothers Big Sisters Hispanic Advisory Board. She was also a founding member of the LAtinas Initiative to engage Latina high school students in public service. In 2014, she promoted a leadership conference for Great Minds in STEM, offering students the opportunity to interact with mentors working in fields they study at university. Magallanes Guevara is also very involved with the LAPD’s youth programs and Chairs the Board of CYAL (Community Youth Activities League) of Newton Division in South Central Los Angeles.

Brandon L. McGee Jr.

ASCEND Mentoring

ASCEND Mentoring, Board President McGee serves as President of the Board of Directors of Ascend Mentoring Program, is co-founder and mentor with D.I.E.S.E.L. Leadership Academy, and advocates for funding mentoring programs in the Connecticut state legislature, where he proudly represents Windsor and Hartford. He has advocated for the Governor’s Prevention Partnership at both the state and national levels, worked to incorporate mentoring into his neighborhood in the Northeast section of Hartford, and promoted bringing the innovative EdCorpsCT mentoring model to the Simpson-Waverly School.f

Samuel Powel

Google

Creative Technical Consultant, Google Powel has directly mentored eight students through the Spark program in Los Angeles over the past three years. In addition to mentoring, he acts as “Corporate Ambassador” and leads the yearlong effort to recruit and inspire Google employees and managers to volunteer as mentors. He has recruited 49 employees to mentor middle grade students from underserved communities throughout Los Angeles. Powel was also a pivotal lead in acquiring a $200,000 corporate donation from Google for Spark has fundraised within Google to acquire $6,800 in employee donations and matched gifts since 2014.

Curley M. Dossman, Jr. (2016)

100 Black Men of America

Board Chair, 100 Black Men of America As Chairman of the Board of 100 Black Men of America, Inc. and as former Vice Chairman of Operations, Chairman Dossman puts mentoring first and it is evident in all that he does. He was recognized as Outstanding Mentor of the Year in September 2015 by the Southern Company during the Congressional Black Caucus. In 2014, he was honored by Voices for Georgia’s Children for his mentoring and organizational leadership of an outstanding mentoring organization.

Belkis Christina Plata (2016)

Take Stock in Children

Former Mentee and Current Mentor, Take Stock in Children
When Belkis entered her third year of law school she began working with children in the Cross-Over Court where foster care students had criminal charges pending. She became an advocate for these youth and spoke on their behalf when they had no voice. In addition to a busy schedule with a new business, Belkis finds the time to mentor three students through the Take Stock in Children program.df

Dr. Sharon Rose Powell (2016)

Center for Supportive Schools

Founder, Center for Supportive Schools Dr. Powell’s achievements in taking evidenced-based mentoring programs to a national scale are best illustrated by her creation and management of the Peer Group Connection (PGC) program. Due to Sharon’s successful track record implementing PGC, she was approached by the New Jersey Department of Health (NJDOH) in 1995 to help develop a program utilizing peer-to-peer education to increase student knowledge, attitudes, skills and behaviors associated with healthy decision-making.

Dave Bing (2015)

BINGO

Former Detroit Mayor, Founder, BINGO Bing developed his strong belief in teamwork and responsibility through a 16-year career in collegiate and professional basketball. In 2014, a year after stepping down as mayor of Detroit, he created BINGO, Boys Inspired Through Nurturing, Growth and Opportunities, a mentoring program to support boys and young men of color.

Charles R. Burke, Jr. (2015)

Grable Foundation

Grable Foundation, Founder, Mentoring Partnership of Southwestern PA Burke founded MENTOR’s local affiliate, The Mentoring Partnership of Southwestern PA, in 1995; a non-profit dedicated to maximizing opportunities for mentoring to transform the lives of young people. He continues to provide guidance and leadership and is recognized as an ally to youth-serving programs in the Pittsburgh region.

Senator Mary L. Landrieu (2015)

Advocate for mentoring in Louisiana After serving eight years in the Louisiana State Legislature and two terms as Louisiana’s Treasurer, Senator Landrieu became the first woman elected from Louisiana to a full term in the U.S. Senate. Throughout her 18 years as a Senator, Sen. Landrieu advocated for Louisiana’s children, veterans, senior citizens, middle class families, and young professionals, as well as Louisiana’s energy, healthcare, agriculture and booming information technology industries.

Coach Bill Snyder (2015)

Kansas Mentors

Kansas State University Football Coach established Kansas mentors Snyder spent three years establishing Kansas Mentors, MENTOR’s local affiliate dedicated to connecting existing mentoring programs and serving as a resource center. Through his dedicated support, Coach Snyder has helped increase funds in the mentoring sector, raise awareness about the importance of mentoring and elevate the cause. Coach Snyder also contributed to developing the Coaches’ Mentoring Challenge, a recruitment campaign that has recruited tens of thousands of mentors.

Michael B. Yanney (2015)

Midlands Mentoring Partnership

Founder, Midlands Mentoring Partnership Yanney was instrumental in creating the local MENTOR affiliate Midlands Mentoring Partnership (MMP). In collaboration with MMP and local programs, his support has strengthened the mentoring movement statewide by providing training and technical assistance to local programs, creating a community-wide comprehensive data collection effort, offering resources to local programs to serve at-risk youth, and working to deliver service throughout their development.

Representative Frank Wolf (2014)

Congressional Champion Wolf has publicly called for investments in America’s at-risk youth to ensure a successful start to adulthood, including encouraging active duty military to mentor at-risk youth in their communities. In his role as chair of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and related agencies he turned his support into action by ensuring a continuation of federal funding for quality youth mentoring.

Lieutenant Governor Brad Owen (2014)

Washington, Public Sector Leader Owen has been instrumental in securing state funding for youth mentoring, building collaborations to reduce the mentoring gap in Washington, and increasing the quality of mentoring. His leadership as the Board Chair for Washington State Mentors (the state’s Mentoring Partnership ) helped to build and strengthen the organization, which serves mentoring programs across the state, and deliver on new corporate partnerships that infuse critical funds into Washington State youth mentoring programs.

Maura D. Corrigan (2014)

Michigan Department of Human Services

Mentor and Director, Michigan Department of Human Services Corrigan has mentored young adults since 2005 while also volunteering her time to help local programs recruit mentors, maintain state funding, and build cross-sector partnerships. Recognizing the important influence mentors can have on foster care youth, Corrigan tasked Mentor Michigan, the state’s Mentoring Partnership, with recruiting mentors for youth in foster care. She also has worked to change policies and procedures at the Department of Human Services to ensure they are mentoring friendly.

The Honorable Charles Schumer and the Honorable Orrin Hatch (2013)

Excellence in Mentoring in America: Civic Leadership Senators Schumer and Hatch tirelessly supported the Child Protection Improvements Act (CPIA), allowing youth serving organizations timely access to a permanent, nationwide system of FBI background checks on potential volunteers and staff, and enabling programs to balance providing caring adult mentors with safety for our young people.

3M (2013)

Excellence in Mentoring in America: Corporate Leadership In 2011 alone, 3M awarded $60.9 million to education and charitable organizations. 3M’s investment in the Mentoring Partnership of Minnesota was critical in getting it off the ground, and 3M’s leadership has supported the Mentoring Partnership of Minnesota’s commitment to quality mentoring and solid infrastructure.

Peter Koch (2013)

Koch Eye Associates

Executive Director of Koch Eye Associates, Excellence in Mentoring in America: Individual Leadership Peter Koch has been a staunch advocate for mentoring for 20 years and has mentored two students himself, while also offering his employees time to volunteer. He sponsors recreational and educational field trips and has arranged for mentored youth to have free eye exams at Koch Eye. Koch has been a board member for the Rhode Island Mentoring Partnership for 15 years.

Dr. Raymund Paredes (2013)

Dr. Raymund Paredes was recognized for his leadership of Big Brothers Big Sisters of America’s Nationwide Hispanic Advisory Council, as well as his dedication to expanding opportunities for young people through education and culture. He also has been director of creativity and culture at the Rockefeller Foundation, where he managed a budget of more than $20 million and awarded more than 200 grants annually in the arts and humanities to individuals and organizations around the world.

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