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Opportunity Impact Staff
This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Emily was born in San Francisco and grew up on the Peninsula. At age 19, as a Law & Society student at UC Davis, she began working on a community redevelopment project in Del Paso Heights that inspired her to pursue a career in youth development. Over the past decade, Emily has worked for local, statewide and national non profits focused on youth development, public schools and social justice. Emily graduated from the Coro Community Fellows Program in 2004. She served a two year term on the Board of Directors for Spark, a global women’s non profit, and volunteered for 5 years at First Graduate. Emily’s proudest role is as a mentor to two young women who surprise and inspire her daily. In 2008, AT&T and 92.7FM radio honored Emily as a local “Community Hero.” Emily currently sits on committees for the Department of Human Services Family & Children Services and the “Afterschool For All” initiative with SFUSD/DCYF. She is an Advisory Board member to A Good Idea, serves on the Board of Directors for the Booker T. Washington Community Center and is a Bay Area Fellow with the National After-School Matters Initiative.
Pam Pradachith, Director of Programs This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Pam was born abroad and raised by a Laotian immigrant family in the San Francisco Bay Area. In her youth, as a participant of the East Bay Asian Youth Center, Pam gained first hand experience of the benefits that comprehensive after school programs have on the lives of children in need. She began her work in the sector in the Bay Area, where her community organizing efforts resulted in the creation of an education resource center for low-income students of color. Pam is returning to the Bay, from New York, where she has been leading Program Quality for a comprehensive youth services program that serves more than 10,000 individuals per year. Pam received a Masters of Public Administration in Non-Profit Managemenet and Policy from NYU's Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service and a B.A. in Urban Studies from Columbia University. Pam was selected as a Bill & Melinda Gates Millennium Scholar in the inaugural year of the program and was awarded a Clark Foundation Fellowship for Public Service.
This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Evan was born and raised in the nation's capital. He attended D.C. public schools and went on to get his A.B. in History from Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH. As the product of a multi-cultural home and the beneficiary of many non profit programs in the D.C. area, Evan has always felt a need to give back to his community. Early in his career, Evan took advantage of the opportunity to impact the lives of others by mentoring and serving as the co-chair of the Dream program, serving youth in Hanover public housing sites. Along with chaperoning trips for inner-city Boston teens, Evan also served on the Board of MOSAIC, a race relations group at Dartmouth. Evan spent three years as a high school History and English teacher in Everett, MA, where he also coached girls soccer team to two straight play off appearances and a league title. Evan has lived in the SF Bay Area for more than a year now and was promoted into his full time role, after first serving as a Program Assistant to Opportunity Impact. |
Emily LoSavio, Executive Director
Evan Jones, Case Manager
