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Afira DeVries named CEO of Monarch School Project
The Monarch School Project announced that Afira DeVries has been named chief executive officer of the nonprofit after a nationwide search led by a team of current and former board members. She will assume the post on Aug. 17. DeVries most recently served as the United States director of Spring Impact, a global nonprofit focused on scaling social impact solutions. Previous to that, she served as president and CEO for the United Way of the Roanoke Valley in Southwestern Virginia and chief development and innovations officer of United Way of Tampa, Fla. She succeeds Erin Spiewak, who held the post for eight years during which time the school successfully opened its current location at the Nat and Flora Bosa Campus. Afira DeVries has enjoyed a two-decade career as a health and human services executive, successfully leading innovation and growth for six thriving nonprofit organiza-
tions. Having generated more than a quarter billion dollars in support of social innovation over the course of her career, her extensive development, leadership and programmatic design experience will contribute to the vision and strategic direction of the Monarch School Project. At the same time, The Monarch School Project also announced the recent appointment of six new board members: Debra Molyneux, community volunteer and past Monarch School Project board chair Graeme Reid, assurance partner, Ernst & Young LLP Jennifer LeSar, president and founding CEO, LeSar Development Consultants Jill Skrezyna, community volunteer Ryan Alfred, president, Digital Assets Data Sam Attisha, senior vice president and region manager, Cox California
California could lose congressional seat under new Trump order California could lose at least one seat in the U.S. House of Representatives if a memo President Donald Trump signed recently goes into effect that wouldn’t take undocumented immigrants into account while determining congressional representation after the 2020 census, the Los Angeles Times reports. An estimated 2 million undocumented immigrants live in California, and Trump’s order - almost certain to be challenged in court - drew immediate pushback from state leaders. Gov. Gavin Newsom: “Counting every person in our country through the Census is a principle so foundational that it is written into our Constitution.
This latest action ... rooted in racism and xenophobia, is a blatant attack on our institutions and our neighbors.” Assemblymember Lorena Gonzalez, a San Diego Democrat and chair of the California Latino Legislative Caucus: “We fully expect the State of California not to comply with the memorandum announced today.” California is likely to lose at least one congressional seat due to glacial population growth. Experts are also concerned that the online-only census could lead to an undercount of the state’s hard-to-reach communities, risking not only power in Washington but also billions in federal funding.
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UC San Diego Alumna Selected For Nasa, Spacex’s 2nd Launch In 2021
NASA astronaut and UCSD alum Megan McArthur.
Before NASA’s first endeavor into space with a private rocket has even launched, the crew for its second joint NASA/SpaceX mission has been selected -- and it includes an astronaut with San Diego ties. NASA astronaut Megan McArthur, a UC San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography alumna, will pilot SpaceX’s second Dragon flight to the International Space Station alongside astronaut Shane Kimbrough and two mission specialists from other countries. The Crew-2 mission, with a targeted launch in spring 2021, will follow NASA and SpaceX’s Demo-2 flight mission and Crew-1 mission, which is sched-
uled for late September 2020. If all goes according to plan, McArthur and Kimbrough will spend six months aboard the ISS conducting science experiments for NASA. The Crew-2 mission will be McArthur’s second trip to space since being selected as an astronaut in 2000, but it will be her first trip to the ISS. Her first mission in 2009, on space shuttle Atlantis, was the last mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope. McArthur maneuvered the shuttle’s robotic arm, guiding her teammates and maneuvering the telescope as her teammates completed five spacewalks to upgrade its technology.
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