About me
Jill Riemer is a nationally recognized leader in the Afterschool/Youth Development field, who has played instrumental and diversified roles in the advancement and growth of the youth development movement over the past several decades. Jill is well known for her early relationship and partnership building skills at the US Department of Education when the 21st CCLC program and afterschool networks were in their early stages of formation. From there, Jill was the founder of the Georgia afterschool network promoting advocacy, strategic collaborations and programming. Jill has a keen sense of connecting the dots from programming to local, state and federal policy, and a unique ability to bring forces together to influence systems building efforts and future policy priorities. Most recently, Jill spearheaded a few innovative STEAM and social emotional health programs to grow in the state of Washington from their Bay area roots and she is now building her independent consulting practice to continue to offer advice, support, project management leadership to non-profits, philanthropic and public partners in education and afterschool/youth development space.