Adriana Rodriquez
Adriana is our AmeriCorps*VISTA who joined the Be A Mentor staff in August 2011. She graduated in May 2011 from the University of Tennessee. While attending the University of Tennessee, Adriana gained internship experience with a local non-profit as well as with Big Brothers Big Sisters. During her year of service with Be A Mentor, she will be conducting research and collecting data that will help Be A Mentor strengthen its mentoring matches. She also plans to mentor a child through one of our Lunch Buddy programs for the 2011-2012 school year. Adriana is excited for her year of service with Be A Mentor and the potential that her research has for strengthening our programs!
Cammie Camp, Program Coordinator
Cammie Camp joined the Be A Mentor staff in June 2011, after spending 3 years as School of the Art’s Volunteer Coordinator and PTSA Newsletter Editor. Cammie earned her Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Virginia and is excited to return to work after spending time caring for her 3 sons. Cammie has spearheaded a campaign to get local libraries and businesses involved as mentoring partners and is looking forward to a great 2011-2012
school year!
Heather Fields, Program Coordinator
Heather graduated from Barnard College at Columbia University in 2009, and joined the Be A Mentor staff in November of 2010. She has experience working with several local and national non-profits during her time in New York. Thus far as Program Coordinator, Heather has spearheaded Be A Mentor’s new website construction and developed partnerships with 3 new mentoring affiliates. She has also focused on collecting statistics and data on Be A Mentor’s programs. Heather has become a lunch buddy to a 4th grader at Chicora Elementary School.
Jerry Young, Founder & President, Be A Mentor
In 1980 Jerry and Lynn moved from the Philadelphia area to Charleston to live out their retirement years. Retirement didn’t last long, as Jerry soon began work on founding the Charleston Leadership Foundation and creating the Charleston area annual prayer breakfast which, since 2001, has served breakfast and fellowship to more than 10,000 people. The list of the speakers includes Tony Campolo, Foster Friess, Ann Graham Lotz, Oliver North, Andrew Young, JC Watts, Joe Gibbs, and MajGen John Grinalds. In 2004, with the help of a seed grant from the Lynn & Foster Friess Family Foundation, Jerry founded Be A Mentor, and has been the organization’s President for the past six years. His experience in working with foster children, through Lowcountry Orphan Relief, helped Jerry to envision a program that would help meet both the physical needs of foster children (through clothing and other necessities provided through Lowcountry Relief), as well as their emotional needs through mentoring. This holistic vision became the cornerstone for the Eyes On The Child Program which he launched in March 2010.
Jerry’s day-to-day duties for Be A Mentor include strategic planning; fundraising; financial management and marketing. He is also a member of EOTC, mentoring a young foster boy at Chicora Elementary School.