Public Lectures

• April 2006, William T. Grant Foundation, Board of Trustees
• June, 2006, U.S. HHS Mentoring Children of Prisoners Conference
• March, 2005, Society for Research and Community Action, Eastern Psychological Association
• April, 2005, U.S. Department of Education, School-based mentoring
• October, 2005, University of Vermont, Department of Psychology
• August, 2004, Melbourne, Australian International Conference on Mentoring
• October 2004, Yale University, Department of Psychology
• October, 2003, National summit on Youth Mentoring, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, Kansas City, Missouri
• January, 2003. Yale University, Department of Psychiatry, New Haven, Connecticut.
• January, 2003. U.S. National Guard’s Challenge Program, San Antonio, Texas.
• November, 2002. The Principal's Center at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
• October, 2002. National Mentoring Center’s Regional Training Conference. Washington, DC
• October, 2002. California Govenor’s Mentoring Network, National Teleconference. (lecture)
• May, 2002. National Mentoring Center’s Regional Training Conference. Denver, CO.
• March, 2002. National Mentoring Center’s Regional Training Conference. Seattle, WA.
• February, 2002. Askwith Education Forum, Harvard University Graduate School of Education.
• October, 2001. Fiftieth anniversary celebration of the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Boston.
• November, 2000. Virginia One-to-One annual conference. Virginia Commonwealth University.

Press

• CBS.com Inteview on Mentoring
• National Mentoring Partnership: “Faces of Mentoring”
• Research Agenda
• Youth Mentoring Programs Can Be Effective if Done Carefully.
  by michele m. melendez c.2003 Newhouse News Service.
• February 3, 2003. Interview on WILL 580.
• February, 2003. Youth Mentoring in Perspective, InFed.org.
• January 28, 2003. One on One, The Christian Science Monitor.
• January 24, 2003 Mentors and the Importance of Commitment, Chronicle of Higher Education.
• April 7, 2002. UMass Buyout May Hurt Students, Boston Globe.
• April 22, 2000. Finding the Right Mentors, New York Times OpEd.

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