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Corporate Officers & Executive Staff
The following is a list of the executive staff members of the National Youth Rights Association. It will grow as the organization grows. The board of directors elects the corporate officers, and the executive director normally hires the executive staff.
Chip Sinton President
Chip Sinton, 17, lives in Orlando, Florida. Chip has been involved in NYRA since 2006 and before his election to President has served as Chapter Formation Captain, Treasurer and then Vice President and member of the Board of Directors of the National Youth Rights Association. A highly ranked national debater, Chip has traveled around the country to debate youth rights in a variety of settings. He has spoken on youth related issues at Emory University, University of Pennsylvania, George Mason University, University of Florida, Harvard University, Princeton University and cities from Ft. Lauderdale to Chicago. Chip strongly believes that young people can be valuable and productive members of society, and as citizens, deserve the blessings of liberty extended to all Americans.
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Stefan Muller Vice President
| Stefan lives in the Chicago area and is currently a freshman at Harvard. He has been involved in the youth rights movement for several years, working with a local village to amend a curfew law, and writing a number of letters to newspapers and elected officials. For NYRA, he has helped write publications and assisted in web design for chapter websites and our Facebook Application. He hopes to continue using this experience to help the youth rights movement well into the future. Stefan joined the board in 2007. |  |
Alex Koroknay-Palicz Executive Director
Alex Koroknay-Palicz, originally from Michigan, moved to the DC area after attending American University. During his senior year in high school, Alex successfully changed the policy of several age-discriminatory stores in his hometown of Holland, MI. Since then Alex has become actively involved in all levels of the Youth Rights Movement. In his capacity as NYRA's Executive Director, Alex has appeared on CNN and Fox News several times and has spoken at numerous conferences about youth rights and NYRA. Alex was voted into office in 1999.
Pamela Tatz Treasurer
Pamela is a former board member, former vice president, and former member of NYRA-Berkeley. She currently lives in New York and is active in NYRA-NYC.
Jessica Roeder Secretary
Jessica Roeder is 17 and is currently a senior in high school. She resides in Marion, Ohio. She originally took an interest in the concept of youth rights in first grade, believing that there had to be a more effective, equal and student-friendly way to learn than the authoritative school system. She learned about NYRA in 2006, and was glad to find she was not alone in her ideals. Since then, she has worked on forming an NYRA chapter in her hometown whose goal is to abolish the town's curfew, and has written essays on different aspects of the issues affecting youth rights. She joined the Board in 2007.
Alex Hull-Richter Chief of Western Affairs
Alex Hull-Richter is an actor, writer, and artist. Admitted to the Gifted and Talented Education Program at the age of six, Alex learned first hand about the dumbing-down strategy of the educational system. Since 2000, he has organized civil rights, voting rights and peace rallies and marches and has actively worked to restore democracy to America. Alex joined the Board in 2006.
Chris Batchelor Student Defense Coordinator
Chris Batchelor, who resides in central Georgia, was born in September of 1978. Since 1994, he has worked with young people in a variety of fields, both recreational and educational. He is currently working as an elementary school Technology Teacher. He has been with NYRA since May of 2004.
Rich Jahn Member Services Director
Rich Jahn, originally from Dubuque, Iowa, is a graduate from Iowa State University with a Bachelor's Degree in electrical engineering. Rich has a modest background in Information Technology working at Eagle Point Software in Dubuque. He's passed the CompTIA A+ Certification exam, which is for computer hardware. He has background in programming C++ and SQL. Starting June 1, 2006, Rich began working at Open Systems Internation in Minnesota. Rich was elected to the board in 2001, but took a year off for school in 2005. He served as secretary again from 2006-2007.
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