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Meet the Newest Member of Our Team, Maria Ortiz [Development Manager]

MAY 14, 2025 Originally from Cali, Colombia, Maria (she/her) has dedicated her career to amplifying the voices of historically underserved communities—particularly children, youth, young adults, and immigrants—through program design, social impact consulting, and the development of social enterprises. Maria earned her Master’s in Social Work, with a focus on leadership, management, and entrepreneurship, from Columbia University. During her studies, she

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TGP’s Virtual Experience: Lessons Learned from COVID-19 Program Adaptations

At Grassroots (TGP), we're constantly evaluating, evolving, and innovating our approach to health education and community engagement. So when the COVID-19 pandemic put a halt to in-person activities for young people in Washington, DC, our team had to be responsive to the needs of the community, answering the call for health education. We put our heads together, met with local

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Grassroots Announces the Appointment of Christine Campbell as Board Chair

Grassroots is excited to announce the appointment of Christine Campbell as Chair of TGP’s Board of Directors. Christine will replace outgoing Board Chair Patrick Nero, who has played a pivotal role in building the Board of Directors and supporting Grassroots through its most recent stage of strategic planning and growth. “Grassroots is an amazing organization with a commitment to the

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TGP Welcomes Program Coordinators, Treniyyah Anderson and Lara Negrón Ocasio

Grassroots is thrilled to announce two new staff members, Treniyyah Anderson and Lara Negrón Ocasio. Treniyyah and Lara will be TGP’s first ever Program Coordinators as the organization plans for a return to in person programs this fall and continues to grow exponentially in DC! They will seek to both increase the quality of TGP programming in middle schools and

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Mental Health Awareness Month

Written and Illustrated by Niambi White About the author and illustrator: Niambi (“Nene”) is a high school senior at Theodore Roosevelt High School and intern with Grassroots through our Urban Alliance partnership. Niambi is a self taught artist and her dream is to be a children’s book illustrator or a tattoo artist one day. You will see her accompanying her

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Best Netflix Movies To Watch Based On Your Zodiac Sign

Written and Illustrated by Niambi White About the author and illustrator: Niambi (“Nene”) is a high school senior at Theodore Roosevelt High School and intern with Grassroots through our Urban Alliance partnership. Niambi is a self taught artist and her dream is to be a children’s book illustrator or a tattoo artist one day. You will see her accompanying her

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#MyTGPstory: Juice

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy49Ydwv2oQ&feature=youtu.be[/embed] Juliana Saling, also known as Juice, is a Master Trainer at TGP and was a part of the second cohort of Master Trainer Interns during the summer of 2019. She is a Sophomore from Maplewood, New Jersey, and is majoring in Business Administration at American University with a specialization in Ethical Business Management and Consulting. Her goal is to

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Grassroots Insider: Getting to Know our 2018-19 Urban Alliance Interns

What is your name? My name is Myaira Grassroot nickname and why ? My grassroots name is Peanut, and I got my name from my grandfather because he says my head is shaped like an almond...but "almond" is a weird name to call somebody, so he gave me the name "peanut." Fun/Interesting facts about you: I am really good at

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Farewell to our 2017 Global Health Corps Fellows

This year has been an incredible one for TGP. Much of the credit for that has to go to our two wonderful Global Health Corps fellows, Ruvimbo "Groovy Roovy" Mushavi and Sahaan "Soz" Sozhamannan. With the help of their leadership, we revamped our curriculum, hosted our first-ever Grassroots Gala, instituted brand new parent programming, created the master trainer summer internship, and

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Reflections and Next Steps on National Youth HIV/AIDS Awareness Day

April 10, 2018, is National Youth HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NYHAAD). On this day, we recognize the impact of HIV/AIDS on young people and acknowledge the amazing contributions of young people to the fight against HIV/AIDS. The theme of this year’s NYHAAD is “Positively PowerFULL: Young People Building an AIDS-Free World”. To this end, we asked three of our student-athlete leaders on to reflect on these questions

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So What Now?: National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day

The following post is written by Howard student-athletes Simone Counts ‘18 and Spencer Kelly ‘19, individual perspectives of being African-American and living in Washington, D.C. where HIV/AIDS is the highest percentage of affected people in the country. In order to understand the severity of a problem, one must first recognize it within their own community. For years African Americans have

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The Reva and David Logan Foundation Gives 3-Year Grant to Support Grassroots

TGP is very excited to announce a three-year partnership with the Reva and David Logan Foundation. Through the partnership, the foundation will support TGP to: (1) pilot and evaluate caregivers-focused programs that enable parents and caregivers to speak more frequently and more effectively with their children about sex; (2) host community linkage-to-care events that directly connect our students and their

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TGP Athletes Attend Special Screening of MTV’s “Shuga: Down South”

Guest Post by TGP Athlete Spencer Kelly (Howard U, Men's Tennis) On March 27, Grassroots invited me to attend a MTV Premiere I didn’t know much about. I was excited to see and hear something that was new to me. I understood Grassroots advocated about HIV/AIDS awareness and sexual health, but I never really knew that there were several other

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