Sonya Carrico
Interact for Health recently added two staff members, Sonya Carrico as senior program officer and Colleen Desmond as Kate Keller fellow.
Sonya Carrico brings almost 30 years of experience in grant development and management, community collaboration and government policy development to the senior program officer role. Sonya’s work will focus on efforts to address the opioid epidemic. Prior to joining Interact, Sonya spent 13 years as the Director of Substance Abuse Services with the Indiana Criminal Justice Institute.
Colleen Desmond
Colleen Desmond is Interact for Health’s first Kate Keller fellow. In this position, she works with the Community Research program and assists in development of community surveys. Colleen also provides evaluation support to the School-Based Health Center and Thriving Communities teams. Colleen has a master’s in public health with a concentration in biostatistics from the University of Cincinnati. Previously, she was a high school science teacher in Northern Kentucky.
Student Anna Impelliteri joins Board of Education
New student representative of the Superintendent’s Student Advisory Council Anna Impelliteri has been sworn in as a member of the Boone County Board of Education. Anna attends Conner High School. She was elected by her peers to serve as the student representative on the board.
Judge Rick Brueggemann swears in Anna Impelliteri.
Anna will serve the beginning of the school year in absentia. She will spend part of her senior year in a public Spanish-speaking high school in Saltillo, Mexico, a small town about an hour from Monterey. She will return in November. Another student from the Superintendent’s Student Advisory Council will fill in for her until she returns. During September, October and November Anna will supply a pre-recorded video message from Anteneo Fuente High to be aired during the School Board meeting and the Superintendent’s Student Advisory Council.
Anna who speaks fluent Spanish and is a member of the Hispanic Honor Society says she wanted to get a better understanding and feel for the Mexican culture by immersing herself living there and attending one of their public schools. Not long ago she traveled to Ecuador on a travel scholarship through the Hispanic Honor Society. She is not part of an exchange or internship program. She simply temporarily withdrew her enrollment from Boone County Schools and enrolled in Saltillo’s public school system. Anna will be living with family friends there. She will re-enroll in the Boone County Schools on-line academy in November and then officially start back at Conner High School in January. Anna plans to attend college and get a degree in international studies and then a law degree. With this background Anna is considering many possibilities including working internationally, practicing immigration law or pursuing diplomacy work.
