Click here to see Tony’s complete bio. Tony has been teaching low-income youth in Washington D.C., Oakland (California), Kenya, Tanzania, Guatemala and Indonesia for the last 16 years. After finishing college, Tony was a teacher at Wilson High School, Dunbar High School, McKinley High School and Shaw Jr. High School in Washington D.C. and then was a Peace Corps teacher for two years in Kenya. Tony also taught work readiness skills to low-income youth at Roxbury Youthworks in Boston, Massachusetts while completing his Master’s of Public Policy degree (focusing on Leadership and Education Policy) at Harvard University.

During his 9 years as the Executive Director of Global Education Partnership (www.geponline.org), an international non-profit organization that teaches low-income youth around the world how to start businesses and find employment, Tony raised over $15 million from foundations and companies such as GE Foundation, the Gap, Bank of America, Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard, Charles Schwab and the Packard Foundation. During this time, Tony taught business and leadership skills to low-income youth at Fremont High School and Castlemont High School in Oakland, California, and Opportunities Industrialization Center West in East Palo Alto, California. Tony was recently featured in a 30-minute PBS documentary on his youth development model which has aired in over 40 U.S. states. Tony has conducted Staff and Board Leadership Workshops for many youth organizations, including the Latin American Youth Center and the Corporation for National Service in Washington D.C. and Real Options for City Kids in San Francisco.

According to Tony, the reason CSL offers the Youth Leadership Workshops is: