Our Staff

Erica oversees the Alliance’s prevention work. From 2005-2010, Erica managed the Partners in Prevention program, which provided community-based organizations, schools, and family planning agencies across Massachusetts with training and technical assistance on science-based approaches to teen pregnancy prevention. She has over 15 years’ experience in the youth development and prevention fields, with an interest in how gender, race, and class shape adolescents’ experiences of sexuality, pregnancy, and parenthood. Prior to working for the Alliance, she directed an after-school program in the Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston and spent 5 years developing research-based programs for girls at the national headquarters of Girls Incorporated. She is a graduate of Oberlin College and holds a Master of Education from Harvard University.

Liz is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University’s Masters in Public Policy Program. She has been with the Alliance since 2008 and had previously interned in our public policy department. Liz launched the TPPAB (Teen Parent Policy Advisory Board, now YPPF or Young Parent Policy Fellows) in November 2008 and has had great success in recruiting and maintaining members as well as executing the policy efforts with the TPPAB. Liz’s background is in working on issues of Sexual Health and Women’s equality issues with the Alliance and with Advocates for Youth. She is responsible for managing the campaigns and initiatives to promote teen pregnancy prevention and support for pregnant & parenting teens. She organizes youth and community partners; advocates for teen pregnancy prevention, and drafts testimony to support comprehensive health education.

Stephanie Campbell, Community Training and Technical Assistance Coordinator, recently joined the Alliance. Stephanie has experience in the field of youth development, serving as Adolescent Services Coordinator at a community based organization in Western Massachusetts. She has also trained and supervised peer health educators at the UMass Amherst Center for Health Promotion. She holds a Master of Public Health degree with a concentration in Community Health Education from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. At the Alliance, Stephanie provides training and technical assistance to youth- serving agencies and community based-organizations for the Youth First project.

Johnette is a community builder at heart. She naturally was drawn to mission driven work and began to lay a foundation for her career in the nonprofit sector in Boston about 10 years ago, in the field of youth development. Leaving Boston to pursue her graduate studies in New York, she had the opportunity to grow the scope of her knowledge and experience by working for nonprofits in Brooklyn, the Bronx and Manhattan. In addition to building community and combating matters of inequity through programming and policy, she is very interested in using art and social media to bring communities together and foster progressive transformations of the mind and heart. Johnette has a Bachelor of Arts in Afro-American Studies and Political Science from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and a Master of Science in Urban Affairs from Hunter College. She is very excited to use her skills to highlight the brilliance and dedication of the Young Parent Policy Fellows.