Case 18

Sixto M. Cancel

Sixto Cancel: Sixto designed, secured funding for, and implemented a pilot program called Stellar Works – a program to prepare children in foster care for post-secondary education. On the national level, Sixto has also served as a Jim Casey Young Fellow, a group of young people who provide valuable youth input to reform foster care. Sixto is a Foster Club All-Star. He contributed his own perspective to the national and state-level conversation about youth transitioning out of the foster care system. He has spoken on panels at Jim Casey Convenings, Children Defense Funds, the CFED Assets Learning Conference, and Harvard Law School. He has been featured in articles for the Hartford Courant, Connecticut Post, Huffington Post, CNN, and NPR’s Tell Me More. In addition to his work Sixto currently serves on the advisory board for the American Institutes Research (AIR) on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, and Allied youth and also service on AIR's advisory board, Improving Outcomes for African American Males in the Child Welfare System. He has also been involved since inception at Rising Tides, an online non-profit.

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