Summits + Ambassadors

Active community engagement has been a hallmark of PrepareRI. The annual Summit and the Ambassador program are two tools to keep the RI community connected to this critical work.

If you are a alum of the PrepareRI Ambassador program, please join us at Malted Barley on Tuesday, May 23rd, 2023 at 5:15 p.m. RSVP through this very short form. We would also appreciate your feedback of the PrepareRI Ambassador program via this very short survey.

prepareri Ambassadors

The PrepareRI Ambassadors are a select group of education and community leaders who help guide PrepareRI’s implementation. The Ambassadors come from different parts of Rhode Island’s education landscape, such as district leaders, principals, school administrators, teachers, college professors, community leaders, parents and others. They use their unique perspective and skills to advise the PrepareRI team, create resources and trainings to help their colleagues, and serve as spokespeople for PrepareRI. Ambassadors continue to work full-time in their previous roles and receive a $5,000 stipend at the end of the year to compensate them for their additional work with PrepareRI. The expectation is for Ambassadors to work 5hrs/ week.

The SY22-23 Ambassadors are:

  • Joe Mazzzone (Computer Science 4 Rhode Island)

  • Angel Lopez-Nuno (Free Application for Federal Student Aid)

  • Robert Anastasi (Counseling-Individual Learning Plans)

  • Mariangel Allan (Adult Education)

  • Erica Szostek (Counseling-SEL)

  • Claribel Crews (Alumni Ambassador)

  • Mary Ellen Lynch (Youth Service/AmeriCorps)

SY21-22 Ambassador projects

previous ambassador cohort project summaries

Annual Summits

PrepareRI hosts Summits each year to connect leaders from schools, government, and private industry to advance PrepareRI’s goal: making Rhode Island a national model in providing high-paying career pathways for young people. PrepareRI Summits are action-oriented: you will receive new tools, resources, and training to make it easy to implement PrepareRI’s work in your role. You will also meet a community of like-minded peers and experts from across the state who share the goal of building high-paying career pathways for all young people in Rhode Island.