Staff

Mr. Roberts brings extensive educational experience as a teacher, an advisor, and educational policy analyst to HealthCorps. Rob is a 2003 Teach for America Corps member and was named Teacher of the Year in his first year in the classroom. In addition Rob was appointed as Team Leader of the teachers of his school site while in the Rio Grande Valley with Teach for America. Rob had also served as a policy consultant for the Academy of Educational Development to address and evaluate the evolution of English Language Learner Policies in New York City Public schools. Before joining HealthCorps, Rob worked for the New York Teaching Fellows and the New Teachers Project training and evaluating New York City public school teachers. Rob has a Masters in Educational Leadership, Policy, and Politics from Columbia University. Rob completed his BA in Literature from the University of Florida while also serving as the captain of the Gators football team. He is a Native of Tampa.

Amy brings over twenty years' experience in communications, journalism and marketing to HealthCorps. Prior to her role here, she worked for five years as Director of Communications in Corporate Marketing for New York State's chief economic development agency, Empire State Development (ESD). During her tenure at ESD, she launched a quarterly newsletter that served as a chief marketing vehicle for the state; organized trade missions and economic summits for the Chairman of ESD and Governor Pataki, including a visit to China; and represented New York State at official functions, among other duties. Amy also spent a year in the State Senate as Press Secretary to former State Senator Roy Goodman. She worked as a public relations executive for New York-based agencies Trylon Communications and Corbin & Associates where she created press material and managed media relations for such clients as Sephora Beauty, the Discovery Channel and About.com. Before moving to New York City in 1999, Amy spent five years in Milan, Italy where she launched a beauty trade magazine for Fairchild Publications and served as Italian correspondent for Women's Wear Daily and Crain Communications' Advertising Age and Electronic Media. She published her first poetry chapbook, "Views from the Driveway," in May 2008 and for fun writes a column on New York City for Italian lifestyle website www.beauty.it. Amy holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration from Villanova University and a Masters in Business Administration from the Thunderbird School/American Graduate School of International Management.

Jennifer was one of the earliest HealthCorps Coordinators. She has been passionate about working with teens in underserved populations and improving public health. She ran the HealthCorps pilot program on Manhattan's George Washington Educational Campus for two years. There, she was instrumental in developing the HealthCorps curriculum and assessing which concepts and methods worked and which ones did not. Jennifer attained her B.A. in Sociology at NYU and is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Public Health at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, where she is passionate about understanding and working towards improving the social determinants and disparities in disease and health.