Clorissa Morgan to Serve as a 50th Anniversary YAP® Making Change Happen Summit Panelist

    YAP® Senior Development Associate Clorissa Morgan


    Youth Advocate Programs (YAP®), Inc. has selected Clorissa Morgan to be a panel moderator for its Nov. 6 50th Anniversary YAP® Making Change Happen Summit. Morgan, Senior Development Associate at YAP®, will moderate the summit’s 11:15 am – 12:15 pm Economic Opportunities: Breaking Barriers: Pathways to Economic Inclusion panel discussion.

    YAP® is a national nonprofit that partners with government systems to deliver community-based services as a safer, more effective, and less costly alternative to youth incarceration and residential care. Guiding principles of YAP®’s model of hiring neighborhood-based Advocates and behavioral health professionals to deliver wraparound services to young people and their families are also helping cities reduce violence. YAP® staff connect program participants and their parents, guardians, and/or other loved ones to individualized economic, educational and emotional needs tools that put them on a positive path and firm their foundation.

    Morgan, who joined YAP® in 2022, supports fundraising through grant writing and the design of fact sheets, reports, and other marketing materials.

    She holds a B.A. in English from the University of South Alabama, where she served as Editor-in-Chief of Due South Magazine. Outside of the university, she freelanced in independent journalism with The Bama Buzz. She was one of three students from South Alabama selected to attend the Oxford Consortium for Human Rights, where she studied with experts in humanitarianism, armed conflict, and international law. In 2019, she represented the university as a delegate to the Nobel Peace Summit of Laureates Youth Program in Mexico, attending lectures led by Nobel Peace Laureates and contributing to the Youth Declaration for Peace.