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Afira DeVries named CEO of Monarch School Project

The Monarch School Project announced that tions. Having generated more than a quarter Afira DeVries has been named chief execubillion dollars in support of social innovation tive officer of the nonprofit after a nationwide over the course of her career, her extensive search led by a team of current and former development, leadership and programmatboard members. She will assume the post on ic design experience will contribute to the Aug. 17. vision and strategic direction of the Monarch DeVries most recently served as the United School Project. States director of Spring Impact, a global At the same time, The Monarch School Projnonprofit focused on scaling social impact ect also announced the recent appointment solutions. Previous to that, she served as of six new board members: 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 Debra Molyneux, community volunteer and past Monarch School Project board chair Graeme Reid, assurance partner, Ernst & Young LLP during which time the school successfully Jennifer LeSar, president and founding CEO, opened its current location at the Nat and LeSar Development Consultants Flora Bosa Campus. Jill Skrezyna, community volunteer Afira DeVries has enjoyed a two-decade career as a health and human services executive, successfully leading innovation and growth for six thriving nonprofit organizaRyan 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 This latest action ... rooted in one seat in the U.S. House of racism and xenophobia, is a Representatives if a memo blatant attack on our institutions President Donald Trump signed and our neighbors.” 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. 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.” A n e stimated 2 million undocumented immigrants live in California, and Trump’s order - almost certain to be challenged in court - drew immediate pushback from state leaders. C alifornia is likely to lose at least one congressional seat due to glacial population growth. Experts are also concerned that the online-only census c ould lead to an undercount of the Gov. Gavin Newsom: “Counting state’s hard-to-reach commuevery person in our country nities, risking not only power in through the Census is a prinWashington but also billions in ciple so foundational that it is federal funding. written into our Constitution.

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. N ASA 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 scheduled for late September 2020. I f 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.