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Unlocking Potential: Building a Rewarding Career in Youth Career Development

Author:
Craig Zelizer

April 12, 2024

Join Our Next Social Change Career Podcast Livestream with Evelyn Van Til

Learn from Evelyn's insights on navigating career, skills-based hiring and creating new pathways as AI and other innovations are changing the future of work right now. 

All of us - from birth to earth - are navigating a dynamic and changing world. Empowering and engaging our kids with teens' digital career-readiness content, skill-building activities, experiential learning, and early career pathways opportunities is a critical piece of not only preparing our kids for their future, but also as adults creating our own. l

As the Strategic Partnerships Manager at American Student Assistance, Evelyn is on a mission to reach 15M+ Gen-Z each year - creating engaging experiences, following the data, centering kids in education and transforming the pathways that lead to life after high school. 

Why You Should Join:

  • Career Insights: Gain valuable insights into building a successful career in youth career development and learn how to navigate this rewarding field.
  • Actionable Plans: Discover how Evelyn frames and creates organized, actionable plans from chaos, and how this skill can benefit your career development initiatives.
  • Engaging Gen-Z: Explore Evelyn's expertise in early career, emerging talent, and K-20 experiential learning and learn how to create impactful programs for the younger generation.
  • Diversity and Inclusion: Learn about Evelyn's approach to fostering diversity, equity, inclusion, accessibility, and belonging in people operations and culture architecture.
  • Community Development: Gain insights from Evelyn's experiences in ecosystem and asset-based community development, and how these principles can be applied to youth career development.
  • Interactive Q&A: Pose your questions to Evelyn on building a career in youth career development and empowering Gen-Z through career readiness.

Event Details:

  • When: April 16 at 1 PM EST
  • Where: Streamed live on LinkedIn & YouTube
  • Can't join live? The session will be available afterwards on our YouTube Channel and on PCDN or your favorite podcast platform. Plus, explore over 140 other episodes featuring brilliant innovators who share actionable insights on building careers of impact in various sectors.

About Evelyn Van Til: Evelyn Van Til is a passionate advocate for scaling pathways for all, driven by a mission to ignite imagination in service of equity. With expertise in early career, emerging talent, and K-20 experiential learning, Evelyn has worked on various initiatives, including apprenticeships, internships, adventure/travel, service, project, play, game, and work-based learning.

In addition to her work at American Student Assistance, Evelyn has organized events like Maker Hour of Code, MakerX, and other events for Computer Science Education Week. She also founded 4th Street Farms, an urban farm on a mission to eat, educate, empower, and employ people, and joined neighbors in creating the Weinland Park Community Civic Association in Columbus, Ohio.

From local to global, Evelyn is dedicated to opening doors curated with intention, purpose, and equity. 

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