Conferences

Molly Andolina

Molly W. Andolina (Ph.D. Georgetown University) is an assistant professor of political science at DePaul University in Chicago. A previous survey director at the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, she has published work on Generation X, youth civic involvement and the socialization of the DotNet Generation. Her most recent work is A New Engagement? Political Participation, Civic Life and the Changing American Citizen, written with Cliff Zukin, Scott Keeter, Michael Delli Carpini, and Krista Jenkins, which was published by Oxford University Press in 2006.

Karen Pittman

A sociologist and recognized leader in youth development, Karen Pittman has made a career starting organizations and initiatives that promote youth development. Karen started her career at the Urban Institute, conducting numerous studies on social services for children and families. Later, she worked for the Children’s Defense Fund (CDF), launching its adolescent pregnancy prevention initiatives and helping to create its adolescent policy agenda. She founded and directed the Center for Youth Development and Policy Research and its spin-off, the National Training Institute for Community Youth Work, was Director of the unfortunately short-lived President Clinton’s Crime Prevention Council, where she worked to create a coordinated prevention agenda, until joining the executive team of the International Youth Foundation, where she was charged with helping the organization strengthen its program content and develop an evaluation strategy. In 1998, she worked with General Powell to create America’s Promise. In 1999, she returned to IYF to lay the seeds for what has become the Forum.


January 14, 2008 MN Student Survey Results January 15-16, 2008 Safe & Healthy Learners conference Northland Inn Brooklyn Park, MN For room reservations call 763-536-8300 or 1-800-441-6422 Mention that you're attending the Safe & Healthy Learners conference
Molly Andolina Molly W. Andolina (Ph.D. Georgetown University) is an assistant professor of political science at DePaul University in Chicago. A previous survey director at the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, she has published work on Generation X, youth civic involvement and the socialization of the DotNet Generation. Her most recent work is A New Engagement? Political Participation, Civic Life and the Changing American Citizen, written with Cliff Zukin, Scott Keeter, Michael Delli Carpini, and Krista Jenkins, which was published by Oxford University Press in 2006. Karen Pittman A sociologist and recognized leader in youth development, Karen Pittman has made a career starting organizations and initiatives that promote youth development. Karen started her career at the Urban Institute, conducting numerous studies on social services for children and families. Later, she worked for the Children’s Defense Fund (CDF), launching its adolescent pregnancy prevention initiatives and helping to create its adolescent policy agenda. She founded and directed the Center for Youth Development and Policy Research and its spin-off, the National Training Institute for Community Youth Work, was Director of the unfortunately short-lived President Clinton’s Crime Prevention Council, where she worked to create a coordinated prevention agenda, until joining the executive team of the International Youth Foundation, where she was charged with helping the organization strengthen its program content and develop an evaluation strategy. In 1998, she worked with General Powell to create America’s Promise. In 1999, she returned to IYF to lay the seeds for what has become the Forum.