In spring 2002 CHERYL ZANDO, AM ’96, was appointed the Director of the John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities. In her role as Director, she works closely with the Faculty Executive Director, Milbrey McLaughlin, to establish the Center at Stanford and at local, regional, state, and national levels. She has been working in the nonprofit sector since graduating from SUSE and the Graduate School of Business. Her first position was as the Director of Operations for Youth and Family Assistance (YFA), a community-based organization serving youth and families in high-risk situations in San Mateo County.
CHERYL ZANDO,
AM ’96

After a year and a half on the Senior Management Team, she was promoted to Executive Director in 1998. Her work at YFA introduced her to the Gardner Center. The vision of the Gardner Center epitomizes Cheryl’s idea of an ideal job: one in which she can work with communities to help them more effectively support youth in making a successful transition into adulthood.
AMBER GOVE
AMBER GOVE, a PHD candidate in International Comparative Education, was recently awarded a Fulbright Fellowship and an International Dissertation Research Fellowship to pursue her research in Bahia, Brazil. She will be investigating the effects of school quality and cost on parents’ decisions to send their children to school. She will begin interviewing hundreds of parents across the state of Bahia this October and plans to complete her dissertation by December 2003.



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