Meet Noelle Colome, RAR's Director, Development.

Meet Noelle Colome, RAR’s Director, Development.

10.10.2023 Team

Where are you from originally? Where are you currently located?

I am from Southern California and currently live in the Bay Area five minutes north of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge.

Let us know a fun fact about you?

I fell in love with reading in 1st grade thanks to my teacher, Ms. Zuber.

What do you do for fun? What are some of your hobbies?

I love to read, hike, travel and enjoy time spent with family and friends sharing a meal.

Best part about working for RAR?

Our mission! I love helping under resourced communities improve learning and literacy and foster a love of reading.

What is something you are most proud of?

I am the first person in my family to graduate from college. Go Bruins!!!

11.28.2023 Team

Meet Michelle Sioson Hyman, RAR’s Senior Vice President, Programs and Partnerships

Where are you from originally? Where are you currently located? I am originally from Cleveland, Ohio and I currently live in Salt Lake City, Utah. Let us know a fun fact about you? I used to be a birth doula. What do you do for fun? What are some of your hobbies? I love to be outdoors — hiking, climbing, walking ...

11.21.2023 From the CEO

Leveraging public funding streams for Raising a Reader Programs: Supporting Learning Recovery and Literacy

Raising a Reader Aligns with Several Public Funding Streams School districts have had and continue to have the herculean task of identifying strategies that can support recovery from the learning loss that occurred due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This school year, school districts have a better understanding of just how much educational progress in reading has been lost since 2020 ...