Carlos Santini will be the facilitator for our conference, Roadmap to Resiliency in Out-of-School Time. Joining us from Los Angeles, he will be using his gifts as a warm, perceptive, and approachable leader to guide our attendees through our conference experience for all three days.

Carlos is the Executive Vice President of Programs for After-School All-Stars, a national expanded learning organization, providing strategic leadership in program design, partnership development, technical assistance, youth development practice, content creation, and continuous quality improvement initiatives in an effort to provide over 70,000 youth in 19 cities across the country with high-quality afterschool programs. Prior to this role, he was the Associate Executive Director for one of California’s most influential expanded learning programs in After-School All-Stars, Los Angeles. The project contributed significantly to the passing of the afterschool initiative known as Proposition 49 in 2004. 

Currently, Carlos is involved in board leadership for numerous educational organizations including the National Afterschool Association (NAA), the Digital Learning Task Force in partnership with Google Education and the NAA, 9 Dots STEM education, The Jazz Education Task Force with the Mott Foundation, and Jazz at Lincoln Center, and ASAPConnect, a statewide technical assistance agency supporting the work of professionalizing and sourcing the afterschool field across the State of California.

Carlos is a featured presenter at nationally recognized conferences and summits, showcasing best practices and innovative strategies in the expanded learning field and non-profit leadership. He attended the University of California, at Los Angeles (UCLA) where he first began his work in youth development as a sophomore for UCLA UniCamp. Carlos is married with two children ages 10 and 13 and is a native of Honduras. His wife, Alejandra Santini is a 3^rd/4^th grade teacher at Santa Monica Malibu Unified School District.

Join Carlos and the rest of Virginia's out-of-school time community on October 13th!