Service Year Alliance Announces 2024 AmeriCorps Alums Segal Leadership Award Winners

Service Year Alliance released the following statement congratulating the winners of the 2024 AmeriCorps Alums Segal Leadership Award:

Service Year Alliance today announced, in partnership with the Eli J. & Phyllis N. Segal Citizen Leadership Program, the winners of the 2024 AmeriCorps Alums Segal Leadership Award, Ms. Julia Garcia and Ms. Priscilla Miller. The Segal Program provides emerging leaders an opportunity to join a community of other like-minded changemakers. As lifelong Segal Fellows, Ms. Garcia and Ms. Miller will take part in professional development, leadership resources, and a powerful community with which to continue their growth and impact as agents for social change. The two awardees were selected from an incredible group of over 65 inspiring applicants from across the country who all demonstrated the power of national service to change lives.

Julia Garcia is a 2024 AmeriCorps Alums Segal Fellow. Her passion for service is rooted in her dedication to creating sustainable and equitable communities through environmental justice. As a CivicSpark AmeriCorps Fellow with the Los Angeles County Internal Service Department’s Clean Energy Program, Julia led the design and deployment of an inclusive rollout strategy for the county’s 10-year EV charging station plan. At California State University, Long Beach, she currently serves as the Sustainable Transportation Coordinator. Julia is pursuing a double Master’s Degree in Infrastructure Management and Planning, Sustainable Transportation from the University of Washington.

Priscilla Miller is a 2024 AmeriCorps Alums Segal Fellow. As a three-time AmeriCorps member, Priscilla has dedicated herself to making a positive impact in her community and beyond. As an AmeriCorps Operation UNITE service corps member, Priscilla provided math instruction and drug prevention education to elementary school students using the “Too Good for Drugs” curricula. As part of the Kentucky Students for Disaster Readiness and Resiliency Corps (KY Ready Corps), she helped Kentucky communities prepare for and respond to natural disasters. Most recently, through the Kentucky Public Health AmeriCorps, Priscilla serves as a community health advocate, promoting harm reduction and suicide prevention resources as well as public benefits including supplemental food programs for women, infants, and children (WIC).

As Segal Fellows, they will join over 160 inspiring, diverse, and multi-generational fellows who are already leaders in their communities, as well as a network of 500 Founders and program partners.

“Julia and Priscilla are worthy recipients of this honor and proud reflections of the legacy that Eli Segal shared with the national service community,” shared Kristen Bennett, CEO of Service Year Alliance. “As AmeriCorps Alums, Julia and Priscilla know firsthand the importance of service above self and what it takes to bring communities together. Service Year Alliance is incredibly proud to present this award to each of them.”

The award was established in honor of Eli Segal, and his wife Phyllis. Often described as the "father of AmeriCorps,” Eli Segal served as the first CEO of the Corporation for National and Community Service, and under his leadership AmeriCorps was created. The Program is based at The Institute for Economic and Racial Equity at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University.

“The Segal Program is thrilled to welcome Julia and Priscilla as lifelong Segal Fellows,” said Susie Flug-Silva, Director of the Eli J. & Phyllis N. Segal Citizen Leadership Program. “Over the past 15 years, we’ve worked to inspire and activate generations of civic and community leaders across sectors, issue areas, and lived experiences to help our Fellows uplift equitable systems and create a more just world through connection and action. We are eager to work with and learn from Julia and Priscilla as they join this incredible community of servant leaders and continue to build solutions as a part of the communities they serve.”

For more information about the award: visit our website or contact Susie Flug-Silva at [email protected] & Nick Zevely at [email protected].

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Service Year Alliance Announces 2024 AmeriCorps Alums Segal Leadership Award Winners
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