Trey Csar
President
Trey Csar has been the President of the Jacksonville Public
Education Fund since May 2009. Before coming to the
Jacksonville Public Education Fund, Trey worked as a youth
organizer in San Francisco, working to involve students throughout
California in advocating for better educational opportunities for
their fellow students. He taught in an inner-city elementary school
in Houston with Teach For
America and served as an assistant principal at KIPP New Orleans West
(NOW), a school set up in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to
work with low-income students who evacuated to Houston from the New
Orleans area. Trey has a master's degree in education policy
from the Harvard Kennedy
School of Government and bachelor's degrees from theUniversity of Florida in
Journalism and Business Administration.
trey@jaxpef.org | direct: (904)
356-6948 | cell: (904) 257-0029
Pam Paul
Vice President, Program & Strategic Partnerships
For the past twenty years, Pam D. Paul has served in
various roles at key organizations in Jacksonville dedicated to
providing low-income children access to opportunities, supports and
a high quality education so they may graduate from high school well
prepared for college and careers. As Vice President of Program and
Strategic Partnerships for the Jacksonville Public Education Fund,
Pam is overseeing the organization's three strategies:
community engagement through the current ONE by ONE campaign
to involve hundreds of citizens in conversations leading to the
creation of a collective Community Agreement for improving the
public school system; data and policy analysis to better
inform the public about key issues in our public education system
and opportunities for improvement through policy briefs and a data
dashboard and advocacy and investment to
partner with the district and other education stakeholders in
promoting new or improved policies and practices such as the
creation of the new Schools for the Future partnership school for
significantly off-track students. Prior to joining the
Jacksonville Public Education Fund, Pam was Vice President of
Community Initiatives for The
Community Foundation in Jacksonville, which
included responsibility for Quality Education for
ALL, a ten-year initiative resulting in the
creation of
Learning to Finish, a collaborative to increase the graduation
rate, creation of the Jacksonville Public Education Fund, and other
efforts to advance public education reform. Pam also served for
more than twelve years in various positions for the Jacksonville Children's
Commission, City of
Jacksonville. As the Commission's first Director of Programs,
she coordinated the process of building higher levels of quality
and accountability into early childhood and youth development
programs, and partnered with the school district to create the TEAM
UP afterschool program. She also managed RALLY
Jacksonville!, the mayor's early literacy initiative which
enrolled 10,000 4-year-olds in the Mayor's Book Club each year.
Pam's earlier experience in Jacksonville included project
management with United Way of Northeast Florida,
resulting in the recommendation to create the Jacksonville
Children's Commission. Before embarking on her
career in philanthropy and the public sector in Jacksonville, Pam
worked in direct marketing and advertising with global firms
Wunderman Worldwide (London) and Young and Rubicam (New York), as
well as Burton-Campbell in Atlanta. A native of Jacksonville, Pam
received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Middlebury
College and a Masters in Business Administration
from City University London. She is a
graduate of Leadership Jacksonville and
the Jessie Ball duPont Community Building
Fund Community Coaches program.
pam@jaxpef.org | direct: (904)
356-7861 | cell: (904) 333-3652
Jason Rose
Director, Data & Policy
Jason Rose joined the Jacksonville Public Education Fund
team in January 2011. He began his career in education as a first
and second grade teacher at schools in Savannah and Atlanta,
Georgia, where he also served as grade level chair and as part of
multiple leadership and community outreach committees at each
school. Jason received his training in quantitative and qualitative
analysis at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill where he worked as a researcher and
analyst for several education research projects at the
Frank Porter Graham Child
Development Institute. His own dissertation research
examined a national dataset of students between kindergarten and
fifth grade to identify teacher, classroom and school
characteristics associated with significant reading achievement
differences during the early years of school. For this research, he
participated in advanced data analysis training with
the Institute of
Education Studies/National Center for Education
Statistics in Washington, DC. Prior to joining
the Jacksonville Public Education Fund, Jason was a postdoctoral
research fellow with the Center for Diverse
Families and Communities at The Pennsylvania State
University where he oversaw all data collection and
analysis for a statewide project on the social and educational
effects of quality afterschool programs. He also works as an expert
consultant on data collection and analysis in school settings for
the AZ REACH project at the University of
Arizona and has presented at numerous regional and
national education research conferences, including the
American Educational Research
Association and the Society for Research on Child
Development. Jason has a master's degree in early
childhood education from Armstrong Atlantic State University and a
doctorate in education from the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill.
jason@jaxpef.org | direct: (904)
356-0921 | cell: (904) 257-3797
Deirdre Conner
Director, Communications
Deirdre Conner joined the Jacksonville Public Education
Fund in June 2011 after spending nearly seven years as a print
journalist. Previously, she was a staff writer for The Florida
Times-Union, where she covered a broad range of issues,
including urban and suburban affairs, education, demographics and
race relations. Before moving to Jacksonville in 2007, Deirdre was
a reporter for the Naples Daily News,
where she wrote about education and child welfare in Lee County,
Florida. She won Florida Press Club awards in 2006, 2008 and 2010.
Deirdre is a native of Miami, Florida, and earned a Bachelor's
degree in Sociology and Anthropology from Swarthmore
College in Pennsylvania.
deirdre@jaxpef.org | direct:
(904) 394-0950 | cell: (904) 345-0597
Carly Yetzer
Manager, Operations and Information
Carly Yetzer joined the Jacksonville Public Education Fund
team in March 2010. She received her Bachelor of Arts Degree
in 2005 from the University of Wisconsin, in Madison.
A 2006 Teach for America Corps Member, she
taught for two years in the Bay Area. In her first year with TFA,
Carly taught fourth grade in San Jose, California, and during her
second year she taught sixth grade English Language Arts
at KIPP Bayview Academy in San
Francisco, Calif. Carly is currently an Achievers for Life mentor
to a sixth-grade student at Matthew Gilbert Middle School. She also
serves on the Board of the Teach for America Jacksonville Alumni
Council.
carly@jaxpef.org | direct: (904)
356-1895 | cell: (904) 469-0542
Allishia Edmonds
Operations Associate
Allishia is a graduate of Samuel W. Wolfson High School
where she was president of DECA, an international association of
marketing students, and the student liaison for Wolfson's Academy
of Finance. She graduated with honors and was a keynote speaker at
her senior awards and graduation ceremonies. Allishia is currently
completing her Associates Degree with Florida State College at
Jacksonville, where she is Student Government President for the
Open Campus. Her time with the Jacksonville
Public Education Fund started when she was selected as a featured
student in the ONE in THREE art exhibition and ONE by ONE campaign.
Prior to joining the Jacksonville Public Education Fund, first as
Outreach Coordinator and then Operations Associate, she worked at
FSCJ in the Office of the President. An alumnus of Jacksonville's
Collegiate Leadership Experience class of 2012, Allishia is also a
member of Jacksonville's Downtown Rotaract and has been actively
involved in youth empowerment organizations such as The Self
Movement, Mayor Brown's Learn to Earn Camp and Youth Leadership
Jacksonville.
allishia@jaxpef.org | direct:
(904) 356-7757 | cell: (904) 307-2875
Bart Hutchins
Community Mobilization Associate
Bart Hutchins joined the Jacksonville Public Education Fund in
January 2013. Previously, Bart worked as a regional field director
for Organizing for America, managing and directing a piece of the
field program which won Florida, and helped re-elect President
Barack Obama. Bart has worked in many settings as an organizer,
from Birmingham, Alabama, to Mbale, Uganda. Bart earned a Bachelors
Degree in Philosophy and Religion from The Baptist College of
Florida. Bart is a native of Jacksonville.
bart@jaxpef.org | direct: (904)
394-0949 | cell: (904) 612-2932
Maira Martelo
Research Analyst
Originally from Colombia, South America, Maira has been living
in Jacksonville for the past eight years. Her bachelor's and
master's degrees are in communication, with an emphasis on
education.
Maira Martelo has more than 12 years of teaching experience as a
college professor in Colombia, Mexico and the United States. She
also has worked as a research consultant in Colombia and Mexico,
evaluating several programs that involved community engagement. Her
experience as a contributor writer for Hola
Noticias, the local Hispanic newspaper, as well as her
engagement in several Hispanic organizations have allowed her to
get to know closely the Hispanic community. Maira is completing her
dissertation about early literacy practices at home and beliefs
about education among the Hispanic community in Jacksonville, as
part of the doctoral program in
Educational Leadership at the University of North Florida.
Prior to working at the Jacksonville Public Education Fund, Maira
worked as assistant of assessment at the College of Education and
Human Services at the University of North Florida.
maira@jaxpef.org | direct: (904)
394-0951 | cell: (904) 351-6671
