Andrew Garrod
Andrew Garrod, Professor and Chair of the Education Department at Dartmouth College, and Director of Teacher Education at the college, co-founded Youth Bridge Global in 2006 to use drama and art to bridge cultural divides, connect youth across cultures, and to provide educational opportunities in under-resourced regions of the world.
A Canadian citizen and a graduate of Oxford and Harvard Universities, Garrod was a public high school teacher in Saint John, New Brunswick for sixteen years, Canada. Since 1999, he has been conducting research in Bosnia and Herzegovina that examines adaptation to postwar conditions in children, adolescents, and college-age students and has published widely on various aspects of adolescent development; he has also directed three multiethnic Shakespearean productions in the Balkans in the last four years. In the Marshall Islands, in the Central Pacific, he has directed two major projects: one, a program that takes Dartmouth undergraduates for a 10-week teaching experience at Marshall Islands High School in Majuro, and the other, a year-long Volunteer Teaching Program that places Dartmouth graduates as teachers in multiple sites in this island nation. In 1991 and 2009, Dr. Garrod was given Dartmouth’s Distinguished Teaching Award. He is Executive Director, with Dr. Helen Damon-Moore of the Tucker Foundation, of the Summer Enrichment at Dartmouth (SEAD) program.
David Yorio
David, born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, co-founded Youth Bridge in 2006 with the goal of reaching across cultures and providing uplifting educational opportunities for students in under-resourced school systems.
A filmmaker, artist, and urban high school teacher, David grew up fascinated by images. His first film, Ri-Belle, which looked at volunteer teachers in the post-nuclear Marshall Islands, was selected to the New York Independent International Film and Video Festival. He also completed a second documentary, Mostari, which looked at the segregation and reintegration of schools in Bosnia and Herzegovina since the Dayton Agreement.
A US citizen and graduate of Manhattan and Dartmouth Colleges, David has worked as an inner city teacher and coach in Boston, MA; he holds an MBA from Georgetown University where he was a Georgetown Scholar. He is currently the Vice Principal at Cesar Chavez Public Charter School for Public Policy in Washington, DC.
Jane Applegate
Jane Applegate is an experienced writer/ producer and one of America’s leading small business management experts. She is the author of four books on entrepreneurial success, including “201 Great Ideas for Your Small Business,” published by Bloomberg Press. A former syndicated columnist for the Los Angeles Times, she has keynoted events and provided strategic marketing services for clients including: Microsoft, Hartford Life Insurance, Amex and The New York Times. In 2008, Applegate wrote and produced, “Brain Attack: A Stroke Survival Guide” for the NBC Station Group. In 2009, she wrote and produced a documentary on the future of video for the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. She is currently producing a documentary for Youth Bridge Global, a non-profit organization that runs a “theatre as reconciliation” program for teenagers in Serbia, Bosnia, Croatia and Montenegro.
Board of Trustees
Jay Davis
Instructor of Education, Dartmouth College
William M. Williams
Headmaster Emeritus, Poly Prep Country Day School
Ralph Maldari
Columbia University, Fundraising
Janine Clemow
Yale University, Development. NewSeed Advisors