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'''Lisette Nieves''' Lisette has served in a variety of cross sector leadership positions. She is an experienced social entrepreneur, public sector leader. She has supported social entrepreneurs, educators and organizational leaders nationally through her work with Lingo Ventures. Lisette has also held senior leadership positions in municipal government at the Dept for Youth and Community Development in the Bloomberg administration and the Corporation for National Service in the Clinton Administration. |
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'''Lisette Nieves''' (born c. 1970) is an American academic and non-profit administrator who is the founder of "Atrevete Latino Youth, Inc.", an organization which focused on the educational and leadership training of young [[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Latino]]s. |
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Lisette also served as the founding Executive Director of Year Up NY, an innovative workforce development program, where in the span of five years she grew the organization from a $250,000 seed grant to a $6 million operation with over 20 corporate partnerships and serves as a policy expert youth workforce and education. |
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| ⚫ | Lisette Nieves is currently the President of the Fund for the City of New York (FCNY), an institution charged with developing and helping to implement innovations in policy, programs, practices and technology in order to advance the functioning of government and nonprofit organizations in New York City and beyond. Lisette is also a Distinguished Clinical Professor with NYU, overseeing doctoral students and supporting research initiatives in the Doctoral Program Leadership and Innovation which she co-founded. |
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When Nieves returned to New York, she went to work for Puerto Rican Association of Community Affairs (PRACA) as coordinator of "¡MUEVETE!" (Move Yourself!). On May 14, 2001, Nieves and several other coordinators decided to develop a new independent organization, "¡Atrevete!" (I Dare You). The organization operated out of a main office located in the Bronx for several years. Under her leadership, the organization's main focus was to educate and to develop the leadership skills of the Latino youth, starting in New York and Boston. ATREVETE! stopped operating in 2010 and the group decided to refocus their energies on rebuilding ¡MUEVETE! as an independent organization. She is also the board chair of ¡MUEVETE!<ref name="businessweek">[http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=138419727&privcapId=29293637 Businessweek]</ref><ref name="B">[http://www.nycaribnews.com/news.php?viewStory=1796 The New York Carib News] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141216204357/http://www.nycaribnews.com/news.php?viewStory=1796|date=2014-12-16}}</ref><ref name="C">[http://trumanscholars.org/profile/profile-lisette-nieves-ny-90-founder-of-year-up-ny/ Profile: Lisette Nieves (NY ’90), Founder of Year Up NY]</ref><ref name="D">[http://rethink.vccs.edu/lisette-nieves-we-cannot-afford-to-squander-potential/Lisette Nieves: We cannot afford to squander potential]</ref> |
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Nieves continued to further her education with the intention of developing her skills to assist in the transformation of Atrevete into an independent non-profit organization.. In April 2002, the first Annual Atrevete Latino Youth Conference was held in [[Boston]].<ref name="businessweek"/><ref name="B"/><ref name="C"/><ref name="D"/> |
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| ⚫ | Lisette is a proud first-generation college student that received her B.A. from Brooklyn College, B.A./M.A. from the University of Oxford, an M.P.A. from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University and a doctorate with distinction in Higher Education Management at the University of Pennsylvania. She is a Truman Scholar, Rhodes Scholar, Aspen Pahara Fellow, 2020 Richard P. Nathan Public Policy Fellow and a 2021 Top 100 Women We Admire in New York State. |
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Nieves is the director of the Betances Community Center for [[BronxWorks]], funded by the Department of Youth and Community Development Cornerstone Initiative. In 2005, she was named one of the most distinguished Latinas by the New York [[Spanish language]] newspaper ''[[El Diario/La Prensa]]''.<ref name="businessweek"/><ref name="B"/><ref name="C"/><ref name="D"/> |
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On July 30, 2021, Nieves was nominated as a member of the board of directors of [[AmeriCorps]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-07-30|title=President Biden Announces Five Key Nominations|url=https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/07/30/president-biden-announces-five-key-nominations-3/|access-date=2021-08-01|website=The White House|language=en-US}}</ref> |
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Lisette Nieves | |
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| Born | c. 1970 (age 53–54) The Bronx, New York, U.S. |
| Education | Brooklyn College (BA) University of Oxford (BA, MA) Princeton University (MPA) University of Pennsylvania (PhD) |
| Occupation(s) | Director, BronxWorks Betances Cornerstone Community Center |
| Member of the Board of Directors of AmeriCorps | |
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| Assumed office TBD | |
| President | Joe Biden |
Lisette Nieves Lisette has served in a variety of cross sector leadership positions. She is an experienced social entrepreneur, public sector leader. She has supported social entrepreneurs, educators and organizational leaders nationally through her work with Lingo Ventures. Lisette has also held senior leadership positions in municipal government at the Dept for Youth and Community Development in the Bloomberg administration and the Corporation for National Service in the Clinton Administration.
Lisette also served as the founding Executive Director of Year Up NY, an innovative workforce development program, where in the span of five years she grew the organization from a $250,000 seed grant to a $6 million operation with over 20 corporate partnerships and serves as a policy expert youth workforce and education.
Career
Lisette Nieves is currently the President of the Fund for the City of New York (FCNY), an institution charged with developing and helping to implement innovations in policy, programs, practices and technology in order to advance the functioning of government and nonprofit organizations in New York City and beyond. Lisette is also a Distinguished Clinical Professor with NYU, overseeing doctoral students and supporting research initiatives in the Doctoral Program Leadership and Innovation which she co-founded.
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Education
Lisette is a proud first-generation college student that received her B.A. from Brooklyn College, B.A./M.A. from the University of Oxford, an M.P.A. from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University and a doctorate with distinction in Higher Education Management at the University of Pennsylvania. She is a Truman Scholar, Rhodes Scholar, Aspen Pahara Fellow, 2020 Richard P. Nathan Public Policy Fellow and a 2021 Top 100 Women We Admire in New York State.