Prior to joining the Rise team, Teresa M worked as a Parent Advocate / Parent Resource Specialist at Heartshare/St. Vincent Services for 3 years. Teresa is a graduate of the Child Welfare Organizing Project where she started her journey of becoming the parent advocate she is today.
Teresa is passionate about working with Rise because she believes in the mission of Rise. She also feels that this is a great opportunity to reach other advocates like … Read More
Robbyne joined a Rise writing workshop in 2002, before the organization formally began, and has been a member of the Rise Advisory Board since it started in 2007. Robbyne is a graduate of the Child Welfare Organizing Project Parent Leadership Curriculum and has been a parent advocate at Child Safety Conferences. Robbyne is a member of Rise’s Leadership Team and completed Rise’s Advanced Writing Group and Public Speaking Skills Training and Advanced Public Speaking Program.
Keyna joined Rise in Fall 2017 as a participant in two workshops to develop Rise TIPS and a presentation on service planning. She was previously a volunteer parent advocate at Episcopal Social Services. She came on staff as a Parent Leader in January 2018 and became Assistant Editor in 2021. In 2022, Keyna was promoted to Writing and Public Speaking Coordinator. Keyna facilitates the Rise & Shine and writing and public speaking workshop series, as … Read More
Halimah Washington is Rise’s Project Manager and Leader of the Family Well-Being Project. The Project Manager is a newly created role to build out Rise’s work of reducing systems involvement. As Project Manager, Halimah leads a team of impacted parents in holding community conversations and conducting a participatory action research (PAR) project to identify and develop a vision to address root causes and community led solutions to child welfare involvement.
Halimah Washington is passionate about Rise’s work … Read More
Teresa joined Rise in 2019 as the Program Director of the Rise & Shine Parent Leadership Program. Teresa runs Rise’s annual Rise & Shine Leadership Program for parents affected by the child welfare system.
Prior to joining the organization, Teresa worked at Graham as a Family Coach. She also served as Interim Coordinator of the East Harlem Community Partnership Program and was the Assistant Director of the Child Welfare Organizing Project.
Partially based on her own experience, … Read More
