Our Alliance

The Alliance for Youth Thriving is a collaborative space open to any alliance, coalition, network, campaign, organization, or field leader aligned with the goal of building community-wide, year-round learning ECOsystems for youth and young adults.  

The Alliance includes Champions, National Partners, and the CYT Crew.

The strategic advisory group of field leaders working together to shape, sustain, and grow the Alliance. Learn more about the CYT Crew.

Tom Akiva

University of Pittsburgh School of Education

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Tom Arnett

Christensen Institute

Mary Arnold

National 4-H Council

Emily Bader

Education Reimagined

Lauren Bierbaum

XQ Institute (consultant)

Michele Cahill

XQ Institute

Terri Ferinde

Collaborative Communications

Michelle Gambone

Youth Development Strategies, Inc.

Courtney Garcia

LearnerStudio

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Ben Houltberg

Search Institute

Rob Jagers

Researcher & Field Strategist

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Emily Liebtag

Education Reimagined

David Osher

Researcher & Field Strategist

Kathleen Osta

National Equity Project

Scott Palmer

EducationCounsel

Jane Quinn

Researcher & Field Strategist

Siobahn Reardon

Campaign for Grade-Level Reading

Gene Roehlkepartain

Search Institute

Kwesi Rollins

IEL/Coalition of Community Schools

Dara Rose

Horizons National

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Tyler Samstag

Remake Learning

Josh Schachter

Community Share

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Kim Smith

Learning Studio

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Alexis Steines Rao

Afterschool Alliance

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Lauren Wilson

Field Strategist

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Merita Irby

Knowledge to Power Catalysts

Alliance for Youth Thriving Managing Partner

Karen Pittman

Knowledge to Power Catalysts

Alliance for Youth Thriving Managing Partner

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Katherine Plog Martinez

Knowledge to Power Catalysts

Alliance for Youth Thriving Managing Partner

Champions are engaged in Alliance communications, convenings, and field-building projects such as the Youth Today Advisory Committee, Youth Development Practice & Pathways Consortium, Summer Learning Design Pilot and more. 

Individuals from over 50 organizations are engaged as Alliance Champions including representatives from:

Afterschool Alliance * American Institutes for Research * Allegheny Partners for Out-of-School Time * Aspen Institute Forum for Community Solutions * ASU College for Teaching & Learning * Attendance Works * Big Brothers/Big Sisters of America * Big Picture Learning * Boys & Girls Clubs of America * California AfterSchool Network *  Camp Fire *  Campaign for Grade-Level Reading * Change Impact * Christensen Institute * City Year * Coalition for Community Schools * Collaborative Communications * Communities In Schools * Community School Learning Exchange * Community Schools Forward * CommunityShare * Cornell NY 4-H Cooperative Extension * The Corps Network * CUNY Youth Studies * Education Reimagined *  EducationCounsel * EL Education * Every Hour Counts * Forum for Youth Investment/Weikart Center * Girls, Inc. *  Harvard Graduate School of Education * Horizons National * Institute for Educational Leadership * LearnerStudio * Learning Agenda * MENTOR * Mizzen * National 4-H Council * National Afterschool Association * National Equity Project * National Summer Learning Association * Opportunity Youth Forum *  Partnership for Student Success * Partnership for AfterSchool Education *  Rock/Tree/Sky * Remake Learning * SoLD Alliance * Search Institute * Special Olympics Unified Champion Schools * UCLA Center for the Developing Adolescent * University of Pittsburgh SOE *  XQ Institute * YMCA of the USA *  Youth Communications * Youth Development Strategies, Inc. * Youth-Nex * Youth Service America