Meet Shelly Coulter, RAR’s Senior Accountant

11.13.2023 Team

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

I’m from Soquel, CA (Santa Cruz area), and now live in San Jose, CA (Silicon Valley).

Let us know a fun fact about you?

Before getting into accounting, I used to work in Journalism and I worked at a few radio stations.

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

I enjoy reading, walking, spending time with family, and playing games.

Best part about working for RAR?

The team and our book collection!

What is something you are most proud of?

Working at Raising a Reader.

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 ...