Arches Transformative Mentoring works with young people in their own neighborhoods, connecting them with "credible messenger" mentors individuals who have backgrounds similar to the participants, including prior involvement with the justice system.
To facilitate the economic advancement of young adult probation clients and reduce recidivism, the New York City Department of Probation, Mayor's Office for Economic Opportunity, and Young Men's Initiative launched the Arches Transformative Mentoring program in 2011.
Mentoring, good mentoring, can be transformative to both the mentor and the mentee.
For the last 13 years, she and her employees have worked closely with the American charity Dress for Success, which helps unemployed women get back into the workplace through mentoring and transformative makeovers.
To provide evidence of this transformative potential she takes Klaatu to see her mentor, Professor Barnhardt John Cleesee), a scientist who listens to Bach and was awarded a Nobel Prize for "altruistic biology".
Leah has won early career awards including the FJ McGuigan Early Career Research Prize for Understanding the Human Mind, the APS Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions, and the Everett Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award.
To date, the Stanford Bio-X Fellowshiprogramam has provided 270 graduate students representing 30 different departments with awards to pursue interdisciplinary research and to collaborate with multiple mentors, enhancing their potential to generate profound transformative discoveries.
The same question could be asked of Ivanpah and of ARPA-E itself, which is tasked with helping commercialize transformative energy technologies with three-year grants and hands-on mentoring.
Read about this transformative approach to learning in an interview with Annie Erickson '16 and her mentor, Professor Eve De Rosa.
The arts practitioner is central as the mentor and guide who activates these elements to realise the transformative potential of a liminal time-space.
Truth Haven will host transformative workshops and working with community members who will serve as mentors and guides for the underserved youth population of Atlantic City.
