Robert Sherman
Program Officer for Effective Citizenry
Surdna Foundation

Robert F. Sherman, Ph.D. is the founding program officer for Effective Citizenry at the Surdna Foundation in New York City. The program supports efforts that help young people participate meaningfully in shaping civic and community life. The Effective Citizenry program funds youth organizing, youth media, policy development, service-learning and a range of youth development strategies which promote individual growth and social change. Effective Citizenry also focuses on the growth of these fields and their need for documentation, strong intermediary organization support, research and sustainable funding. Prior to this tenure at Surdna, Sherman was Executive Director of the Increase the Peace Volunteer Corps, a city-wide, grassroots race relations initiative sponsored by the Officer of the Mayor in New York City. For four earlier years he directed the Community Relations Institute, a think tank studying neighborhood-based responses to racial tension housed at the New York City Commission on Human Rights.

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