Ep. 6 - Jesse Hahnel: Foster Youth
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In this episode of The Do Good Podcast, Marc and Shlomy talk to Jesse Hahnel of the National Center for Youth Law about foster youth.
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Ep. 5 - Leila Toplic: Refugees
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In this episode of The Do Good Podcast, Shlomy and Marc speak with Leila Toplic about refugees.
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In this episode of The Do Good Podcast, Marc speaks to Shlomy about his area of expertise: adult low literacy. Shlomy Kattan is Senior Director at The XPRIZE Foundation, where he leads the Adult Literacy XPRIZE and the Foundation’s Education & Learning vertical. In this capacity, he works closely with business leaders, policymakers, and industry experts to address grand challenges to maximizing human potential. Prior to joining XPRIZE, Shlomy was CEO of Kudo!, an award-winning EdTech startup. He was previously a Consultant at The Boston Consulting Group after a 10-year career in...
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Ep. 3 - Six Ways To Improve Your Political Conversations
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Tired of political conversations with your friends and loved ones that end in screams and tears? In this special in-betweenisode, Marc gives his recommendations for improving our political conversations and making them productive. Why do our political conversations devolve into shouting fests? Why do they become contests in one-upmanship? And, when was the last time you ever heard someone say, “you know what you are right. I concede.” You don’t hear that. But, you should … if the goal of these exchanges is trying to find the truth. ...
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Ep. 2 - Dara Papel: Homelessness
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Ep. 1 - Nick Melvoin: Education
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In this episode of The Do Good Podcast, Shlomy and Marc speak to Nick Melvoin. Nick is currently running for a seat on the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) School Board. Nick has a long history in education and education reform. He has served as a seventh and eighth grade English teacher at Markham Middle School, an LAUSD campus in Watts. Nick holds a Bachelor’s degree from Harvard University, a Masters in Urban Education from Loyola Marymount University (LMU), and a law degree from the New York University School of Law. In addition to serving as a teacher,...
info_outlineIn this episode of The Do Good Podcast, Marc and Shlomy talk to Jesse Hahnel about foster youth.
Jesse Hahnel is the Executive Director of the National Center for Youth Law, commonly referred to as NCYL, and he is the former Director of NCYL’s Foster Youth Education Initiative (FosterEd). A graduate of Harvard University and Stanford Law School, Jesse has been an attorney at NCYL for nearly nine years. Seven years ago he founded FosterEd, an innovative, award winning, system-reform initiative of NCYL that improves educational outcomes of foster children.
The National Center for Youth Law is a public interest law firm that has been in existence for over four decades. Its mission is to improve the lives of children and youth living in poverty. It is a system transformation organization which means that it works to improve and support the systems that should be serving vulnerable youth.
Foster youth in the US have worse outcomes than other at-risk youth:
- There are about 415,000 foster youth in the US;
- There are about 28,000 foster youth in Los Angeles County;
- Only 58% of foster youth graduate from high school, and only 3% graduate from college;
- Fifty percent of the youth that age out of foster care end up either homeless or incarcerated.
Listen to Jesse discuss with us the work that he and the National Center for Youth Law are doing to help foster youth. Click here for full show notes.
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