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Urban Health Initiative welcomes new Fellows
Thirteen leaders with the talent, expertise and desire
to improve the health and safety of kids have been named as
Urban Health Initiative Fellows. The new Fellows will work
with the Urban Health Initiative (UHI) campaigns in Baltimore,
Detroit, Oakland, Philadelphia and Richmond.
"UHI Fellows have helped create a great deal of positive
change for kids in our five campaign cities," says Charles
Royer, national program director for the UHI. "The 13
outstanding individuals that now join the UHI Fellowship Program
will further expand the involvement and support of a broad
group of leaders in the work of the UHI.
They have very different talents and spheres of influence.
That's what we need - great diversity among leaders pulling
in the same direction, making the five UHI cities great places
for children and families."
UHI Fellows assist the local campaigns in a wide variety
of ways, from helping campaigns establish working relationships
with key policymakers, to helping implement reforms of the
large systems that serve children and families, to advising
on specific campaign tactics such as communications.
The new UHI Fellows, and the local UHI campaigns they will
work with, are:
Baltimore (Baltimore's Safe and Sound Campaign)
- Bailey Fine, District Director for Congressman Ben Cardin
- Samuel Stringfield, Principal Research Scientist at Johns
Hopkins Hospital
Detroit (The Youth Connection)
- Jeriel Heard, Director of the Wayne County Department
of Community Justice and Assistant County Executive
- Roger Short, Budget Director, City of Detroit
- Pam Wong, Chief of Staff, Michigan Department of Education
Oakland (Safe Passages)
- Diane Bellas, Public Defender, Alameda County Public Defender's
Office
- Mary Dean, Senior Vice President, Children's Hospital
& Research Center, Oakland
- Dr. Marye Thomas, Director, Alameda County Behavioral
Health Care Services
Philadelphia (Philadelphia Safe and Sound)
- Sandra Dungee Glenn, President, American Cities Foundation
- Marcia Martinez-Helfman, Senior Vice President, Philadelphia
Workforce Development Corporation
- Naomi Post, Consultant
Richmond, VA (Youth Matters)
- Sherri Brach, President, United Way Services of Richmond
- Mark Christie, President, Virginia Board of Education
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