Cat is a lifelong student of social change. She is a 2008 graduate of Yale University, where she majored in History and played Division I Field Hockey.

As Co-Founder of Social Contract, Cat is passionate about transforming how communities finance social change efforts, and scaling up the highest value strategies needed to drive progress on a specific social issue, in a specific place.

Prior to Social Contract, Cat helped to launch Teach For America – Delaware. As Director of Community Impact, she founded and ran two collaboratives through a collective impact framework: the FirstGen Network, and SummerCollab, which is now a nationally recognized summer learning system serving over 2000 low income youth, reversing summer learning loss for a seventh straight year.

Combining experience in education, organizational management, facilitation, and program design, Cat brings a comprehensive community organizing approach to empower community leaders to navigate their most pressing social challenges. She is most recently a 2018 Roselyn Jaffe “every day hero” Award Winner.

Meghan grew up in Wilmington, Delaware and as the oldest of four sisters, she has 30 years experience working with bossy women leaders. She’s an alumnus of the University of Delaware where she worked as a victim advocate for survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence and graduated with a degree in Women’s Studies and Political Science — and learned “the personal is political.” Meghan has worked as a legislative aide in the Delaware Legislature, a policy advisor to Governor Markell and as an advisor to the Secretary in the Delaware Department of Education. She’s currently flexing her entrepreneurial muscles and working to grow a start-up focused on collective impact to support social change work. She’s married to her high school sweetheart, Jarred Keena, and they live with their 4-year old son, and 9-year old daughter, in Wilmington, Delaware

Ron has over a decade of executive management and tactical operations experience, in both the public and private sectors.

Most recently, Ron served as Managing Director at Fireside Partners Inc., the globally trusted emergency response firm for over 60% of the Fortune 50. In his time there, Fireside Partners  saw historic growth, transforming the promising upstart to a global market leader, culminating in the relocation of company headquarters to a state-of-the-art response campus and being recognized as the State of Delaware Veteran owned business of the year in 2016.

Ron has also managed several complex projects; in the public sector, Ron served as Program Director for a primary initiative of Delaware’s “Race to Top” Foundation award. In this role, he managed the Delaware Talent Cooperative to explosive year-over-year growth and its all-time high in both new educator and new administrator talent acquired, trained, and placed into schools; targeting the most at-risk populations in the state of Delaware.

In his spare time, Ron enjoys days spent at the beach and the baseball field with his Family; wife Kari-lei, and their son Ronald IV, aka “Lil Man,” whom Ron was afforded the opportunity to coach to the 2018 Little League Delaware State Championship (9-10 years old division).

Noah Friedman is Social Contract’s creative consultant. After graduating from the University of Rochester with a BA in English, he joined Teach For America’s Phoenix Corps, where he taught 7th grade writing and social studies for two years. During this time, Noah pursued a Master’s of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing at the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. After graduating from Warren Wilson, Noah moved to Philadelphia, where he worked as a curriculum developer for a YouTube influencer, and then for SummerCollab, where he became their Creative Director.

Carling Ryan is Social Contract’s Project Director. Prior to coming to Social Contract, Carling worked for the State of Delaware in the Office of Women’s Advancement & Advocacy and the Delaware State Senate, developing policy, research, and providing constituent relations in a variety of capacities. Carling holds a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations and Spanish Studies from the University of Delaware, as well as a Master’s degree in Public Administration from the University of Pennsylvania.

Alisia Drew is a Project Resident with Social Contract. She is a second year master’s student, pursuing a degree in Urban Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Delaware (UD). Alisia has worked as a Research Assistant for the School of Public Policy and Administration’s Center for Community Research and Service. In this role, Alisia provided support to the Wilmington Community Advisory Council, a local group dedicated to preventing youth violence and promoting positive youth development. Alisia is a social justice advocate, who has spoken nationally on issues pertaining to racial and gender equity. Alisia is a 2011 and 2013 graduate of IUP where she earned a bachelors of science in Child Development and Family Relations and a masters of arts in Adult and Community Education.

With an educational background in developmental psychology and social work, Ian has spent his career focusing on positive youth development and program management in various capacities. Originally from Honolulu, his work has taken him to Chicago, Madison, San Diego, northern India, and, most recently, the Delaware Valley region. He was a National Institute on Out of School Time Fellow from 2015-2017, and currently serves on the editorial board of the Afterschool Matters Journal.

Whitney Wideman is a Project Lead for Social Contract. After spending a decade working, researching and facilitating change within the long term care arena of public health, Whitney knows the importance of collective impact and what truly drives progressive change. A Delaware native and active member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated, the importance of creating change within her community are vital to her personal mission. Whitney holds a BS in Public Health from Temple University and a professional certification from the University of Delaware.

Ananya is a student at Mount Holyoke College where she is pursuing a degree in Psychology with a minor in Nonprofits. She is interested in identifying the key problems that lead to unequal access to quality education. As a Project Associate, Ananya oversees proposal research and copy writing.

Outside of class, Ananya enjoys teaching swim lessons to kids with special needs and serves as a Community Advisor to the Leadership Floor. She also serves as the director of HOBY (Hugh O’Brien Youth Leadership Program) CLeW (Community Leadership Workshop).

Fabiola Kabera is a program and curriculum designer for the Residency Program in Social Contract. She is particularly passionate about empowering young people to be changemakers and drivers in their lives and communities. She is a senior at Minerva Schools at KGI, where she spends each semester in a different country, endeavoring to learn about any innovations happening in their education sector. She worked on curriculum development in Buenos Aires, for the Ministry of education of Argentina, spent last year working on improving Amnesty International’s courses on human rights and loves the challenge of innovating curricula. She is majoring in Cognitive Sciences and International Development.

Fiona Iyer is a people lover who thrives when solving systemic problems and collaborating with others. She hopes to spend her life catalyzing meaningful relationships and creating human-centered solutions to challenging social problems. For Social Contract, Fiona co-facilitated the prototype for the Warehouse (an afterschool program designed for teens by teens) and the residency program pilot. She is now architecting a program that will teach facilitators how to manage diverse stakeholders in a complex system. Fiona cares a lot about food equity and justice and is planning on starting a socially-conscious restaurant in a food desert that deeply engages and empowers the local community.