Mimi Appel

Mimi Appel serves as Midwest Program Director for the New Teacher Center (NTC) at University of California Santa Cruz. As part of the NTC national dissemination, she serves on the leadership team of the Chicago New Teacher Center, and provides mentor teacher professional development and technical assistance. She also coordinates the NTC’s Midwest policy initiative, providing facilitation and technical assistance to state induction policy initiatives. Mimi served as a new teacher mentor in the early years of the Santa Cruz New Teacher Project. Mimi worked as the founding coordinator of the Giv’Em 40 Coalition, a regional partnership to develop youth assets under the auspices of a large consortium of non-profits, school districts and other youth related organizations. Giv’Em 40 received national recognition for its dynamic approach to developing healthy young people. Through a multi-county intermediate school district, she supported creative leadership among youth in schools, and helped launch multiple youth-led initiatives to promote caring schools and communities. Mimi is married to Gary Appel, and is the proud mother of two teenage sons.