Yonela Carusi

Yonela Carusi has been with Hispanic Unity of Florida (HUF) since October 2006. During the past 15 years, Yonela has been a Program Manager that oversees the Unity 4Kids pre-school center, the Family Strengthening Program, the Social Services of HUF Front Desk, and the Case Management services of Unity 4teens. Currently, Yonela is the Associate Director of the Education Department at Hispanic Unity. Yonela is responsible for ensuring programs comply with policy and service standards to monitor the programs/contracts and evaluate the daily delivery of services. Yonela holds a BS on Education and obtained a master’s degree in Management and Administration of Educational Programs at Nova Southeastern University in June 2015. Yonela participated for 5 years as a Board Member of the Broward Association of Education for Young Children (BAEYC) until 2020. Additionally, she served as mentor in the Business Leadership Institute for Early Learning-BLI including the expansion in Orlando as the BLI Mentor Chair for 5 years as well until 2020. She received an award in 2005 as Mother of the Year from Healthy Mother, Healthy Babies and she received an Outstanding Advocacy Award at the Florida Association of Education for young Children Conference on December 2017 in Orlando Florida.