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Meet the Team

May 2015

Tangee Allen
Co-Founder

tangee@raisingexpectations.org

As a co-founder of Raising Expectations, Tangee Allen has worked alongside Maria Armstrong (the two met while both were enrolled as students at Georgia State University) to create and develop our nonprofit youth development organization into the award-winning program and resource it is today. In addition to Tangee’s experience working in the nonprofit sector, she has also worked for local government for over nine years. As a Program Manager in the Mayor’s Office for the community-focused Department of Weed and Seed—an innovative, comprehensive multiagency approach to law enforcement, crime prevention, and community revitalization—Tangee was responsible for working with the designated Weed and Seed sites to develop and implement their 5 year strategy under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Justice. As an active participant in her community and staunch advocate for Atlanta’s youth, Tangee has been recognized by a variety of organizations and has received a host of community awards from the City of Atlanta, Spelman College, Enterprise Foundation, Morehouse College and the WB Channel 36.

Maria Armstrong
Co-Founder

maria@raisingexpectations.org

Maria Armstrong has served the Atlanta area for nearly two decades in a variety of academic and service-oriented capacities. In addition to her primary role as co-founder of Raising Expectations, growing and guiding our organization alongside Tangee Allen, Maria’s diverse educational experiences have also included working as a high school teacher, mentor, teaching in alternative educational settings and serving as an administrator in a public charter school. A graduate of Georgia State University, Maria was also the creator, director and administrator of a collaborative after school program model that served over 400 students with interactive academic and enrichment activities. Her comprehensive experience extends to resource development with community organizations and program development in elementary, middle and high schools. Maria was a runner up for the MTV Brick Award and was featured in the inspirational book As I Am. She was also honored with a Sisters Who Serve Award from Spelman College and an Unsung Hero Award from the WB 36 television station as one of Atlanta’s top young leaders along with an Unsung Heroine Award from the Atlanta Chapter of National Coalition of 100 Black Women.

Staff

Elizabeth Palacios
STEMWARE Coordinator

(elizabeth@raisingexpectations.org)
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Jamie Gray
Coordinator, Project DREAM

(jgray@raisingexpectations.org)

Jamie Gray is a child maltreatment preventionist currently serving as the Project DREAM Coordinator at Raising Expectations. A proud alumna of Spelman College, Jamie graduated with degrees in Psychology and Spanish before receiving a JD/MSW from Washington University in St. Louis. While at WashU, she focused her studies on how the law affects vulnerable populations and concentrated in Community Revitalization through Family Stabilization, Organizational Improvement, and Policy Implementation. Jamie was one of ten selected to participate in the Bergstrom Child Welfare Fellowship at University of Michigan Law School and one of eight chosen for the Emory Summer Child Advocacy Program at Emory University School of Law. She is passionate about child advocacy and has previously held positions at Legal Aid South Africa, Legal Services of Eastern Missouri, and Prevent Child Abuse Georgia.

Jamie has been a team member at Raising Expectations since a student at Spelman College. In 2016, she officially joined the team as a program administrator then moved into a STEM Academic Leader (SAL) position. She currently leads our Project DREAM programs and supervises a staff of 3 SALs.

S.T.E.A.M Academic Leaders (SAL’s)

Project DREAM (3rd-6th)

Tamara Burke (AmeriCorps)

Fallon Holmes

Kimani Leftridge (AmeriCorps)

Michael Thomas (AmeriCorps)

Chasteney Richardson

Abena Fredua-Agyeman (Virtual)

Project DREAM-At Promise Center (7th-12th)

Requel Hall

Rebecca Wright

Demonte Nelson

Jerrica Davis (AmeriCorps)

Project STEMWARE (9th-12th)

Jahnessa Payne

Lyric Bell (AmeriCorps)

Tiffany Russell

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