Graduate School
Boston College School of Social Work

Undergraduate School
Harvard Extension School

Mentor
Lissy Medvedow, Executive Director, Rappaport Center for Law and Public Policy at Boston College Law School

Emy Takinami, Racial Justice Policy and Community Engagement Manager at FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University and Former Rappaport Public Policy Fellow

Agency
Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education

Description of Fellowship
Melissa will help in engaging the Playful Learning Project stakeholders as the group establishes the priorities and design the formal request to hire a vendor to implement the Playful Learning Institute. She will also be reviewing grantees’ applications for continuation funding of the SEL grant for FY23, determining trends in their success and challenges and their potential needs for supports and resources from DESE.