Maame Ameyaw
Coordinator, Communications & Operations
Coalition for Community Schools
ameyawm@iel.org
202-822-8405 ext. 156
Maame joined the IEL staff in January of 2007. Her primary responsibilities include providing administrative, logistical, financial and programmatic support for the research, publications, meetings and conferences, Web site, and other work of the Coalition for Community Schools.
Maame’s experience includes interning for Michigan State Representative Barbara Farrah in the spring of 2005, where she worked on the district’s bi-weekly newsletter, managed the database, and acted as the first contact for constituent relations. She has also been an after-school community service leader at an elementary school, and she has volunteered for the Ronald McDonald House Charities as well as working as a senior homecare assistant.
Maame received her B.A. in Political Science from Michigan State University. She spent her last semester interning at the Women’s Campaign Forum in Washington D.C. She is also a 2010 graduate of IEL’s Education Policy Fellowship Program, a year-long leadership-development program .