How Read Ahead is responding to COVID-19 To our Read Ahead Community: I hope this message finds you well, and that you are staying safe and doing what you can to adjust to the challenges of the current crisis. The…
We’re thrilled to highlight Brian Chapman, a mentor from Columbia University. This year, nearly 200 students, faculty, and staff from Columbia are mentoring with Read Ahead! Why did you choose to be a Read Ahead mentor? I chose to do…
It’s an honor to feature another one of our incredible Junior Board members, Joyce Castro, in today’s blog! Joyce has been mentoring for two years through her employer, Cravath, Swaine and Moore, which is one of Read Ahead’s Champion Partners.…
We’re thrilled to feature Kelly Dolan in today’s blog. Kelly has been a mentor through longtime Read Ahead partner, Nomura, since 2017. Not only is she a stand-out member of the Junior Board, Kelly also ran the 2018 ran the…
Our wonderful mentors are one of the things we are most thankful for this season at Read Ahead! We are delighted to highlight one of our amazing longtime Macquarie mentors, Juan Lopez. Juan’s Mentoring Journey Juan is a fifth-year Read…
And how programs like Read Ahead can help The number of homeless or housing insecure children in New York City schools is staggering – over 114,000 this year, or one in ten of all students enrolled. To put this in…
Our next superstar Featured Mentor is Erica Randazzo from Latham & Watkins. Erica avidly supports Read Ahead as both a mentor and a runner. On March 17th, she ran as part of Team Read Ahead at the 2019 United Airlines…
We are excited to introduce our second Featured Mentor, Petiri Reed from Bloomberg. Petiri is doubly awesome as both our Featured Mentor AND a Featured Runner. On Sunday, March 17 (Yes, also St. Patrick’s day!), he will be running with…
Our first featured mentor is Bonnie Peterson from Google. As a Page Turner Mentor, she has been partnered with her mentee, Lia, for three years. Eva David, the Program Coordinator, shared that Bonnie returned from maternity leave to ensure she…
John Giouroukakis started reading with Read Ahead four years ago and was instrumental in bringing on many volunteers from his employer,Latham & Watkins LLP. John also helped Read Ahead receive a $5,000 gift from Latham & Watkins as a benefit…