Gina Warner, J.D. Executive Director
gwarner@nolayouth.org • 504.304.9591 x231
Gina Warner’s leadership has made Partnership for Youth Development a vital resource for existing and emerging after school programs serving children and their families in post-Katrina New Orleans.
She has more than twelve years of experience providing development and public relations services to nonprofit organizations and governmental agencies. The former public school teacher, lobbyist and senior aide to U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu became the Executive Director of the Partnership for Youth Development in April 2006.
Since taking the helm of Partnership for Youth Development, Gina has worked diligently to drive investment to the after-school field in New Orleans, securing over $ 2M in public and private donations to the organization. Under her leadership, the Partnership has built the quality and capacity of local programs. The Partnership recently launched a citywide Web-based mapping tool for youth resources, developed a quality assessment tool to monitor program quality improvement and established an intensive professional development course that has already trained over 200 local youth workers. Gina’s management has increased the Partnership for Youth Development’s policy and advocacy work for afterschool programs. Partnership for Youth Development’s successes also include: commissioning a study on the governance and funding of city recreation departments, releasing a public funding policy brief and recently opening a second office in Baton Rouge to closely monitor work at the state level.
Gina has served as chairman for the U.S. Attorney’s Juvenile Justice Committee and was the only representative of a youth organization invited to sit on the Crime Coalition of New Orleans.
Gina spends much of her personal time engaged in community projects and activities. She is the former Community Council Director for the Junior League of New Orleans and Vice President of the Board of Directors for the International School of Louisiana, a language immersion public charter school in New Orleans.
Gambit Weekly and New Orleans CityBusiness have both honored her for her work and commitment in the local nonprofit community. Warner is a 1990 graduate of the University of South Alabama and a 1995 graduate of Loyola Law School. She and her husband, Dan, have a four-year-old daughter, Kieran.