About Advocates for Children of New York
For more than 50 years, Advocates for Children of New York has played an important and unique role in New York's public education community. We focus on the children and youth who are most likely to experience failure or discrimination in school because of poverty, race, disability, language barriers, homelessness, or involvement in the foster care or juvenile justice systems. No other city-wide organization works in the trenches, providing these vulnerable students and their families with the one-on-one guidance and advocacy they need, while at the same time, pressing for systemic reforms that benefit all students, even those who are most challenging to educate. Our efforts on the individual and policy levels inform and strengthen each other, increasing our effectiveness for the communities we serve.
Leadership at Advocates for Children of New York
The team at the top of the org chart.
Alex Elegudin
Director, Postsecondary Readiness Project
4 reports
Ivette Greenblatt
Director Of Development
1 report
Randi Levine
Policy Director (she/her)
2 reports
Rita Rodriguez - Engberg
Director, Immigrant Students' Rights Project
6 reports
Isabella Rieke
Senior Communications Manager
2 reports
Matthew Lenaghan
Deputy Director
8 reports
Melkis Alvarez-Baez
Chief Operating Officer
8 reports
Malika Harris
Director Of Equity And Impact
Janyll Canals - Kernizan
Director, Robin Hood Project (she/her)
1 report
Michelle Eaton
Senior Education Specialist, Project Achieve (she/her)
Marcia Flores
Education Partnership Manager- Project LIT
Pamela Mendez
Staff Attorney, Project Achieve (she/her)
Kaela Dockray
Administrative Assistant — Postsecondary Readiness Project
Emily Rosenbach
Senior Manager, Grants and Contracts
Sarah Part
Senior Policy Analyst (she/her)
Chijindu Obiofuma
Senior Special Education Policy Manager
Diana Aragundi
Assistant Director, Immigrant Students' Rights Project (she/her/ella)
4 reports