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Oregon Foster Youth Connection, Lydia Bradley

Oregon Foster Youth Connection, Lydia Bradley    Lydia Bradley, Oregon Foster Youth Connection Program Manager, oversees Children First's statewide, youth led, advocacy program for current and former foster youth. Lydia is a founding member of Many Hopes, a social justice nonprofit in Kenya that supports and educates orphaned children. Her experience also includes program managing a nationally recognized, innovative girls mentoring after school program in Boston and starting the Schools Uniting Neighborhoods community school program at a high poverty elementary school in Portland, OR. Lydia earned her bachelor's degree in political communications from Emerson College and spent her first professional years working in marketing at New England's leading government and public relations firm.