Every Step of the Way: Conversations that Inspire

Executive Vice President: Executive Vice President Georgia Boothe joined Children’s Aid in 2015 as the vice president of the Child Welfare and Family Services Division. She oversees the organization’s work with young people who have become involved in the juvenile justice system as well as the preventive services program, which works to strengthen families that are involved in the child welfare system. She also leads a deeply experienced team of social workers and other front line staff in serving children and families with special needs. Georgia comes to Children’s Aid after spending more than five years at Pathways to Housing NY, as the executive director. She holds an M.S.W. from Columbia University and earned her undergraduate degree from Skidmore College, where she studied social work and American studies.

Executive Vice President: As executive vice president, Sandra supports senior leaders who oversee our community schools and centers to deliver high-quality holistic services and implement strategies that enable children, youth, and families to succeed and thrive. She also supports senior leaders charged with cultivating, implementing, and disseminating best practices in the community schools and collective impact movements as well as our college/career access and workforce development initiatives. Previously, Sandra spent nearly 15 years with the Fund of the City of New York's Youth Development Institute, the last five of which she served as executive director. She led a host of initiatives designed to help youth-serving organizations across multiple sectors maximize their impact in New York City and across the nation. She also founded a consultancy where she provided executive coaching to local and national leaders throughout the country with a focus on DEIB. Sandra earned an M.S.W. from Columbia University and received a B.A. in sociology from Hunter College, where she also was an instructor in a course on mentorship.

Vice President of Marketing and Communication: Anthony Ramos manages the public profile of Children's Aid across all media and led the organization’s efforts in its first rebranding process in more than four decades. Since joining Children’s Aid in 2011, Ramos has helped to communicate Children's Aid’s strategic objectives to key stakeholders and enhance its web presence through multimedia. Ramos came to Children’s Aid from the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), where he served as director of communications. Prior to his work with GLSEN, Ramos managed communications for the Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center and the National Hemophilia Foundation.

Casper Lassiter is the Campus Director for Children’s Aid, Dunlevy Milbank Center in Harlem NY. Through his guidance and support, Mr. Lassiter has played a key role in the lives of many Harlem youth. Mr. Lassiter has been a leader, a role model as well as an inspiration to the young people in Harlem. Mr. Lassiter’s life changed when he joined Children’s Aid 42 years ago as a guard on the basketball team. Children’s Aid Carrera program came in two years later and saved his life during an era where drugs and teen pregnancy where rampant in his neighborhood. While most of his peers had fallen to the temptations of the street life, Casper was at Milbank learning personal development, and receiving job-training courses. Keeping the lessons, he learned at Milbank in mind, Casper graduated from Salisbury Prep in Salisbury CT in 1990, and then it was off to Pennsylvania where he earned a Bachelors of Arts in Social Psychology from Lehigh University in 1994, and a Master’s of Social Work from Hunter College in 2000. Casper Lassiter has truly given back to his community by working at the very center he grew up in. He began his Youth Development career 30 years ago at Milbank when he started as a Case Manger where he advocated on the behalf of the residents of 118 th Street. In 1997, Mr. Lassiter was promoted to Associate Coordinator of Youth Development Services at Milbank, two years later, he was promoted to Coordinator and after reinvigorating a once lackluster program, Mr. Lassiter was then promoted in 2001 to Assistant Director of the Milbank Center. After serving as the Director for The Drew Hamilton Learning Center. Casper came back to lead the very place where it all started the Milbank Center in 2009. Throughout his college career, Mr. Lassiter has been presented with numerous awards, such as the Lehigh University Learning and Leadership Award. Lehigh University Senior Award, and Service Award, as well as the Martin Luther King Jr. Leadership Award. Mr. Lassiter has kept up his record of accomplishment when he was thrice awarded the Excellence Award, which is given to outstanding Children's Aid staff. Casper is married, the father of two children ages 26 and 19.