Robert Carmona is the Co-Founder of STRIVE International. Under his stewardship, the organization has grown from a community-based organization in 1984 to an international network of service providers with 18 sites throughout the United States as well as six sites abroad. Prior to his tenure at STRIVE, he was the Assistant Director/Agency Services for Greater New York Fund/United Way. Robert has extensive experience advocating for adolescents having served as a counselor for adolescents in the Court Employment Project and as an Adolescent Caseworker for Downstate Medical Center's Family Youth Center.

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