Biden nominates Faga Harris and Alvin Warren for AmeriCorps

Admin l Friday, June 06, 2021

 

WASHINGTON, US – President of the United States, Mr. Joe Biden has nominated  Fagan Harris and Alvin Warren, to serve on the Board of Directors of AmeriCorps.  Both individuals have extensive experience in public policy, national service, and community engagement.

In a statement, Mal Coles Acting Chief Executive Officer AmeriCorps said  members of the Board are nominated by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate.

“With Fagan and Alvin’s nomination, AmeriCorps will now have five Board members pending Senate confirmation. The Board provides overall guidance to the agency and senior leaders, promotes our initiatives and programs, builds relationships with key stakeholders, and elevates national service and volunteerism through engagement and partnerships”, Mal Coles added.

Fagan Harris is a social entrepreneur, writer, and researcher who has dedicated his career to advancing impact career opportunities for underestimated communities.

As the co-founder and CEO of Baltimore Corps, Fagan has led his team to re-imagine recruiting, hiring, and career advancement for underestimated communities. In 2020, Baltimore Corps played a leading role in the Baltimore Health Corps, a $12M initiative that enlisted hundreds of city residents in Baltimore’s pandemic response as full-time public health professionals.

The Health Corps earned national attention as a model for centering racial equity in large-scale workforce development. Since its inception, Baltimore Corps has engaged thousands in public service and social entrepreneurship. In 2021, Baltimore Corps launched citycorps.us, which will deploy the organization’s model in cities across the United States.

Fagan is an active civic leader. He currently serves as the assistant American secretary for the Rhodes Trust, where he helps oversee the scholarship’s annual recruitment and selection process. He is a trustee at the Johns Hopkins Hospital at Bayview and the Enoch Pratt Free Library. He serves as the national board president of Lead for America.

Fagan is also a board member at several Baltimore-based social enterprises including B-360, Infinite Focus, and H.O.P.E (Helping Oppressed People Excel). Fagan chairs an impact consultancy that guides leading institutions to integrate “ESG” into their core practices and operations. Previously, Fagan co-directed the Impact Careers Initiative at the Aspen Institute where he led a team of researchers to publish scholarship on talent pipelines in the public and social sectors. He started his career at College Track where he helped build its College Success strategy and program. In 2011, Fagan staffed the White House Council for Community Solutions in the Obama Administration.

For his work in social entrepreneurship, Fagan was named a fellow at Ashoka and Echoing Green. In 2020, he was awarded the Dial Fellowship by the Emerson Collective. Fagan has given the keynote address at several national conferences including CEO for Cities Conference and MCON. Fagan is a writer who elevates stories of Black excellence. He has worked with several New York Times best-selling authors, including Wes Moore. He is currently co-authoring several memoirs with leading Black luminaries. Fagan is a proud graduate of Maryland Public Schools. He is an honors graduate of Stanford University where he was the recipient of its top undergraduate honor. He has a master’s in philosophy from the University of Oxford where he was a Rhodes scholar.

Alvin Warren is a member of Santa Clara Pueblo where he lives with his wife Pamela, an Isleta Pueblo tribal member, and their children. He is vice president of Career Pathways and Advocacy for the LANL Foundation in Espanola, NM. In this role, he’s responsible for expanding students’ access to academic and technical opportunities by supporting the growth of college and career readiness in districts, schools, communities, and Native American Pueblos, Tribes, and Nations.

He leads the foundation’s work with secondary schools, universities, colleges, industry leaders, and government representatives to develop and support a seamless educational continuum of well-articulated steps, cradle to career, coupled with strong supports and connections to employment opportunities. Alvin is a former cabinet secretary of Indian Affairs for the State of New Mexico, lieutenant governor of Santa Clara, program officer for the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, national Tribal Lands Program director for the Trust for Public Lands and land claims/water rights coordinator for Santa Clara.

During his career, Alvin has helped Tribes across the United States regain and protect traditional lands; ensure over $120 million in state dollars flowed to Tribes to build essential infrastructure; enact state legislation establishing a framework for collaborative state-Tribal governmental relations; and develop and sustain Tribal immersion and dual language schools and positively transform public narratives about indigenous peoples.

Alvin is the president of the Kha’p’o Community School Board, co-chair of the New Mexico Broadband Collective, an advisory committee member for the Native American Relief Fund, and on the board of directors for the International Funders for Indigenous Peoples. He’s a longtime farmer who’s actively involved in the cultural life of his tribal community. Alvin earned a bachelor’s in history from Dartmouth College and a master’s in public administration from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.