Advocates for Children of New York
Melkis Alvarez-Baez is the Chief Operating Officer at Advocates for Children of New York, a position held since October 2024. Prior experience includes serving as Chief Operations Officer and Director of Finance & Operations at Community Resource Exchange from March 2021 to September 2024, and holding various roles at Nonprofit New York from September 2011 to March 2021, including Chief Operations Officer and Acting President & Executive Director. Melkis has a strong background in nonprofit management, program development, and fundraising, having also served as Co-Director of the Jill Chaifetz Education Helpline at Advocates for Children of New York, Inc. from August 2006 to September 2011. Educational credentials include a Master of Science in Nonprofit Management from The New School and a Bachelor of Arts in Biology from Harvard University.
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Advocates for Children of New York
For more than 50 years, Advocates for Children of New York has played an important and unique role in New York's public education community. We focus on the children and youth who are most likely to experience failure or discrimination in school because of poverty, race, disability, language barriers, homelessness, or involvement in the foster care or juvenile justice systems. No other city-wide organization works in the trenches, providing these vulnerable students and their families with the one-on-one guidance and advocacy they need, while at the same time, pressing for systemic reforms that benefit all students, even those who are most challenging to educate. Our efforts on the individual and policy levels inform and strengthen each other, increasing our effectiveness for the communities we serve.