Ron Jackson
Executive Director
E-mail 314-531-0011 ext. 102

Mr. Jackson holds a Bachelor's degree and has more than 30 years in community service settings. Well-known and trusted by many sectors in the St. Louis community, he is also an experienced trainer and facilitator. He has a wide variety of expertise including community organizing, needs assessment, evaluation, stakeholder engagement, conference planning, linking school performance with afterschool programs, role of school boards, and the African American achievement gap.

Rose Anderson-Rice
Project Director
Reaching Our Youth Institute
E-mail 314-531-0011 ext. 106

Rose holds a Masters in Public Administration and a B.S. in Elementary Education and has more than 14 years of experience working in early care & education and school age program settings. Most of her career has been spent in the non-profit sector developing partnerships with stakeholders. Rose has experience working with faith based organizations in the areas of organizational and professional development. Rose has expertise in grant writing, strategic planning, project management, community collaboration and is an experienced trainer and facilitator.

Siinya Edmondson
Project Assistant
Reaching Our Youth Institute

E-mail 314-531-0011 ext. 112

Siinya has worked most of her career in the non-profit sector. She has 9 years of administrative & clerical experience, including database management, composition, spreadsheet analysis & desktop publishing. She is currently pursuing her BA in Communications/Public Relations, with a minor in Business Management. She is the former director of a church mentoring program and is striving to start a community-wide mentoring program in an effort to reach as many youth as possible.

Timothy Fowler
Training & Technical Assistance Coordinator
E-mail 314-531-0011 ext. 103

Mr. Fowler has more than 14 years of experience in child care and school age program settings. He has expertise in afterschool program management and training, Missouri School Age Licensing requirements, Missouri accreditation requirements, youth engagement, diversity awareness, quality standards assessment and youth development. He is a certified trainer for Advancing Youth Development training program and an Afterschool Regional Educator with the Missouri Afterschool Network.

Lois Langford
Administrative Coordinator
E-mail 314-531-0011 ext. 105

Lois has 15 years of administrative experience with 10 of those being in the not-for-profit setting. She has experience in early child care and education and youth development programs. Lois has office management experience with an emphasis on database management, and grants management.

Gloria Hampton
Assistant Project Director
Reaching Our Youth Institute
E-mail 314-531-0011 ext. 108

Gloria is a native of St. Louis with experience in working with families and children in a variety of non-profit organizations throughout the United States. Gloria has strong facilitation skills and experience with training of audiences in classroom, workshop and small groupsettings. Gloria's background spans more than ten years of diverse training, program development, curriculum design and implementation as well as hands on work experience with at-risk children ranging in ages from birth to eighteen in diverse settings of child care, foster care and residential group homes. She holds a Master of Social Work Degree and Bachelor's Degree in Human Development and Family Studies.

Vickie Robinson
Office Coordinator
E-mail 314-531-0011 ext. 100

Vickie has over 16 years of executive administrative skills in a non profit setting. She also has more than four years of fund development experience. Her expertise includes database management, fund development, office management, volunteer management and website maintenance.