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What is your name and position at AYW?
How long have you been working with AYW?
As a Board Member, what have you learned or what has been your experience at AYW?
How has AYW changed since you started as a Board Member?
What is a hobby or interest you’d like to share?
Anything else to share with our audience?

 

What is your name and position at AYW?

Rubén Cantú, Board Chair

 

How long have you been working with AYW?

6 years

 

As a Board Member, what have you learned or what has been your experience at AYW?

I have learned to lead a board that has many different talents, priorities, and perspectives and help ensure we are moving in one direction.
 

How has AYW changed since you started as a Board Member?

It has grown from a state wide organization to an interstate organization and has increased staff and capacity. It also has adopted a more inclusive and diverse culture and created a space for innovation to thrive.

 

What is a hobby or interest you’d like to share?

I love exploring nature and the outdoors and having an organization like AYW that promotes this is amazing.

 

Anything else to share with our audience?

We all have the capacity to help in a small way, we all have diff gifts and talents and resources. When we bring them together we can move mountains. AYW is a mountain that was once a dream. Our hope is that we can sustain this movement of a mountain moving into our next fifty years.

 

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What is your name and position at AYW?
How long have you been working with AYW?
As a Board Member, what have you learned or what has been your experience at AYW?
What is a hobby or interest you’d like to share?
Anything else to share with our audience?

 

What is your name and position at AYW?

Ellen Hunt, Board Treasurer

 

How long have you been working with AYW?

One year, plus supporter for many prior

 

As a Board Member, what have you learned or what has been your experience at AYW?

Everyone is dedicated to the mission, and focused on helping students grow and learn.
 

What is a hobby or interest you’d like to share?

I design jewelry and use lots of tools to make it. My mother was also a jeweler and I have some of her tools that I use. I love that part of solving jewelry problems has to do with designing and making specific tools to fit the project.

 

Anything else to share with our audience?

I’m so excited for AYW’s 50th Anniversary and I’m excited to see how we grow and change to serve our students in the next 50 years.

 

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What is your name and position at AYW?
How long have you been working with AYW?
As a Board Member, what have you learned or what has been your experience at AYW?
How has AYW changed since you started as Board Member?
What is a hobby or interest you’d like to share?

 

What is your name and position at AYW?

Paul O’Brien, Board Member

 

How long have you been working with AYW?

2 years

 

As a Board Member, what have you learned or what has been your experience at AYW?

Opportunities to make a difference in the world are abundant and one in particular increasingly critical in our economy, is what is being served through AYW. As AI increasingly challenges what our workforce will look like, we know the skills, experiences, and jobs developed and filled, by the work being done here.
 

How has AYW changed since you started as Board Member?

What it means to work meaningfully is constantly evolving and AYW evolves with that to ensure everyone thrives, from 3D Printing to increasingly serving workforce demands in CleanTech Energy, let’s get more people in sectors of the economy in high demand for labor.

 

What is a hobby or interest you’d like to share?

I live and breathe startups, from my work with governments for Founder Institute to my research and policy work through Startup Economist, some of us love to work and it’s fair to say that my hobby is what I do for a living.

 

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