Jesse Hahnel

The National Center for Youth Law hired from within its ranks to replace its longtime leader, John O’Toole, who retired this summer after 35 years. Jesse Hahnel took the helm as NCYL‘s fifth executive director in its 45-year history.

Foster Ed, an education-focused initiative of the National Center for Youth Law, will burnish its credentials as a statewide leader in advocacy for the education of foster youth when Jacqueline Thu-Huong Wong takes the helm of its California branch on July 1.

Assemblywoman Susan Bonilla (D-Concord) is the Chair of the Assembly’s Budget Subcommittee on Education Finance, and the first Calif. state legislator to unequivocally come out against the elimination of Foster Youth Services.