Shirley Sagawa, Advisory Board, is an author and a member of the board of AmeriCorps. She is the former President & CEO of Service Year Alliance, a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, and an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy.

Previously, Shirley served as the first Managing Director of the Corporation for National & Community Service, Founding Executive Director of Learning First Alliance, Chief Counsel for Youth Policy for the Senate Labor Committee, and helped draft the National and Community Service Act of 1990 and the 1993 AmeriCorps legislation on the White House Domestic Policy Council staff.auth