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Foundation Staff
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Meet the Bonner Foundation Staff
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Staff Members
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Wayne Meisel
President
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Mr. Meisel graduated cum laude with a B.A. in government from Harvard University. He was a John Harvard Scholar for the highest academic achievement and was a awarded a John Finley Travelling Fellow. With this fellowship Mr. Meisel walked from Maine to Washington to champion student and campus involvement in community service.
As founder of the internationally known Campus Outreach Opportunity League (COOL), Mr. Meisel created a platform for students and graduates to lead, sustain and challenge their peers to serve others and bring about positive change.
Working with COOL from 1983 to 1989, he set the tone for youth-run/youth-led organizations. His efforts brought about coalitions between and among individuals, campuses, local communities and all levels of government that today are actively engaged in program conduct and policy implementation.
Mr. Meisel has served as president of The Corella and Bertram F. Bonner Foundation since it was founded.
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Bobby Hackett
Vice President
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Mr. Hackett joined the Bonner Foundation in 1992 as Vice President and Director of the Bonner Scholars Program. He also directs the National Higher Education Community Based Research Project, which has received funding from the Corporation for National Service.
Prior to joining the Bonner Foundation, Mr. Hackett worked at the Telesis Corporation, an affordable housing developer in Washington, D.C. He also served as managing director of the Campus Outreach Opportunity League (COOL) during its first three years of operation. In addition, for the past twenty years, Mr. Hackett has been associated in various capacities with the Youth Policy Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based non-partisan organization that researches and reports on policies and programs relating to young people.
Mr. Hackett received his bachelors degree from Harvard University in 1985 and a masters in public and private management from Yale University's School of Organization and Management in 1990.
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 Ariane Hoy
Senior Program Officer
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Ms. Ariane Hoy joined the Bonner Foundation in the fall of 2004 to serve as the Senior Program Officer. She had previously served four years as the Executive Director of Campus Outreach Opportunity League (COOL), a national non-profit that educates and mobilizes college students to be involved in service, activism, and social justice. There, she helped to create an extensive civic engagement curriculum, which is also designed for the Bonner developmental model. She also created the Learning the Lessons from Social Movements Summit and led COOL's merger with Action Without Borders/ Idealist.org, which has resulted in the new Idealist on Campus program.
Ariane brings extensive experience working with students and young people in civic engagement, having also served three years as the Vice President for Program at Jumpstart, where she helped lead the creation of an outcome-based integrated program model. Ariane also spent five years as a Program Director and Senior Program Designer and Trainer for the National Academy at City Year and one year at the Echoing Green Foundation in New York City as the Director of the Undergraduate Public Service Fellowship, supporting social entrepreneurs to launch their own innovative programs. She has extensive experience in training development and implementation, including in team leadership, management, organizational change management, event planning, and diversity.
She was born and raised in South Lake Tahoe, California. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford University in 1992 with a degree in Political Science and extensive service-learning experience in East Palo Alto, CA and at the Haas Center for Public Service. She was also awarded the John Gardner Public Service Fellowship and Echoing Green Fellowship for social entrepreneurs.
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Joan Horton
Bonner AmeriCorps Enrollment Manager
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Joan Horton began working for the Bonner Foundation in September 2004 in a volunteer capacity. Joan currently serves as the Enrollment Manger for the National Bonner AmeriCorps program that includes more than 900 students across the country, where she oversees the daily enrollment, time managment and exiting for all AmeriCorps members.
Prior to joining the Foundation, Joan spent 8 years working for an Employee Benefits Consulting firm as a Health and Welfare Consultant in New York City and Newtown, PA. Joan graduated from Western Maryland College (now McDaniel College) in Westminster, MD in 1986 with a B.A. in Political Science.
Joan lives in Princeton with her husband and two teenage children.
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Gretchen Mielke
Program Associate
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Annie Pasqua
Program Associate
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Elaine Wheeler
Office Manager
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Ms. Elaine M. Wheeler has worked at the Bonner Foundation for more than fifteen years in various capacities. Her current position as Office Manager spans a wide variety of duties including support for Mrs. Bonner both in a personal and business capacity, financial matters, payroll, personnel, benefits and general office administration. Elaine brings more than thirteen years of previous administrative experience to her current position.
She was born and raised in Pennsylvania where she currently resides with her two children. She is currently attending Rider University pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, majoring in accounting.
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Christen Foell
New Jersey Bonner Program Director
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Christen Foell joined the staff of the Bonner Foundation in the fall of 2006 to serve as the Program Director for the New Jersey Bonner Leader Program. In this position, Christen facilitates a regional coalition of campuses and community partners dedicated to engaging students in service. Christen also directs the New Jersey AmeriCorps initiative funded by the State Commission on National and Community Service.
Christen brings extensive experience in program and volunteer management having worked for several national nonprofit organizations including the Dream Foundation, the National Multiple Sclerosis Society and Special Olympics.
A native of Southern California, Christen earned a bachelor’s degree in Communication Studies from Westmont College. She later completed a Master of Public Administration with a concentration in nonprofit management at Seton Hall University.
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Rebecca Grinstead
Program Associate
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Becky Grinstead is the Program Associate for the New Jersey AmeriCorps Bonner Leader Program. Becky is responsible for member file management, coordinating Seasons of Service events, and providing programmatic support to campuses and community partner agencies in New Jersey.
A native of California, Bekcy graduated with a BA in Political Science from Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania, in May 2007. In addition to studying Political Science at Gettysburg, Becky received minors in Spanish and Visual Arts. In her senior year, Becky worked for Gettysburg College's Center for Public Service as a Program Coordinator at a local non-profit organizations, Project Gettysburg/León (PGL), a sister city project of Gettysburg and León, Nicaragua.
After graduating from Gettysburg, Becky completed a 1700-hour AmeriCorps term of service with the New Jersey Public Interest Research Group's Community Water Watch program as a campus organizer at Rutgers University College Avenue.
In her free time Becky loves to read, paint, and play ultimate frisbee. She loves summer, long walks on the beach, and would enjoy getting to know you!
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Andrew Brown
Foundation Summer Intern
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Andrew Brown graduated from Carson-Newman College in May 2005 with a Bachelor's degree in Philosophy and Religion. He became acquainted with the Bonner Scholars Program through volunteer work with YOKE Youth Ministries an active service organization used by several Carson-Newman Bonner Scholars. Although he was never a Bonner Scholar himself, Andrew became more connected to the Foundation during the first year of his master's program at Princeton Theological Seminary. For seven months he interned with the Foundation, focusing primarily on developing resources for reflecting upon community service using literature, philosophy, history, and politics (Bonner Resources). This summer Andrew has returned to the Bonner Foundation to help organize the 2008 SLI conference and continue his work on reflection resources from several years ago.
For the past two years Andrew has worked as a Math Tutor with Huntington Learning Center in Lawrenceville, NJ. Following his summer internship with Bonner, he hopes to continue this education path into private schools in the Princeton Area. Andrew's long-term goals include continuing education in philosophy so that he can teach in a College or University somewhere on the East Coast.
Andrew's other hobby's include Independent Music (such as Beirut, Band of Horses, Of Montreal, or Les Savy Fav), Literature,European board games, Ultimate Frisbee, and Liverpool FC.
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Mike Austerlitz
Foundation Summer Intern
& Bonner Leader at Hobart College
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Michael Austerliz has been involved with Bonner and Americorps since the Fall of 2006. His primary service and staff work was done for Democracy House, Middlesex County College's Bonner Leader Program in Edison, NJ. He was a student there from Sept. 2005 until May 2008, when he graduated. Michael will be attending Hobart and William Smith Colleges in the Fall of 2008 and plans to major in History. He will hopefully continue his Bonner work at the school with their Bonner Leader Program.
Michael is on his way to finishing a 900 hour Americorps term for Democracy House as well as interning at the Bonner Foundation this summer. At Democracy House, Michael mentored at risk youth, worked at Elijah's Promise Soup kitchen, particpated and helped organize river cleanups as well as planning workshops, events and other things while working there.
When he transfers to Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Michael hopes to study History and Public Policy. He will graduting in 2010.
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Kelly Behrend
Foundation Summer Intern
& Bonner Scholar at the University of Richmond
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Kelly is a Bonner Scholar from the University of Richmond in Richmond, Virginia. She is 20 years old and will be entering her junior year this coming fall. Her major is Peace & Conflict Studies with a minor in Spanish. This past year, Kelly served Refugee and Immigration Services of Richmond as an ESL teacher. She worked with a class of about 30 adult students from all over the world. The site was a perfect match, considering her interests in language, culture, education, and refugee/immigrant policy-making.
Unfortunately, she will not be able to continue with her service there this upcoming year. Kelly will be studying abroad in Bilbao, Spain for the fall semester and Derry, Northern Ireland in the spring to do research on terrorism for her major; specifically about the Basque region's terrorist group, ETA, and the IRA in Ireland. She is looking forward to having the opportunity to travel, live, and serve abroad. And when Kelly returns, she plans to go back to Refugee and Immigration Services for her senior year.
Other than being a Bonner, Kelly is a Spanish drill instructor (assistant teacher) at the university as well as an Orientation Advisor. In her free time Kelly likes traveling, reading, writing poetry, collecting music, running, and being outside. She is also a vegetarian, an avid tea-drinker, and a big fan of sushi.
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