About ASA

Changing the future for 15 million kids

We’re helping to build a generation of successful students who are confident, competent, and ready to realize the future they envision.

MISSION

WHO WE ARE

We aspire to help students know themselves, know their options, and make informed decisions about their education and career goals early in life. Our overall objective is to build a generation of successful individuals who are confident, competent, and ready to realize the future they envision.

A national non-profit, American Student Assistance (ASA) has been pioneering solutions to help students for more than 60 years. Since 2018, we’ve been building a new digital ecosystem of platforms and partners that is revolutionizing the school-to-work journey for every kid in America, starting in middle school.

INNOVATION

HOW WE DO IT

Our extensive engagement and ongoing research helps us create actionable insights and innovative solutions that meet kids on their terms.

Extending our reach through strategic investments in funds and private companies aligned with our mission and financial goals.

Providing grants to the innovative nonprofits and community-based organizations who share our vision.

By building a new digital ecosystem of platforms and partners that gives kids new, more impactful ways to explore their future careers.

Advocating across the nation for the policies and resources kids need.

EVERYONE

A COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY

As a mission-driven, public-purpose organization, ASA’s greatest strategic asset is our people. Our future success and our ability to provide equitable access to information and opportunity is dependent on attracting and retaining a diverse workforce that can recognize and leverage our individual and collective strengths.

OUR LEADERSHIP

Jean Eddy

President & CEO

Clay Colarusso

CMO and SVP of Digital Strategy

Angie Castera

Chief People Officer

Judy Goldstein

SVP of Public Relations, Communications and Planning

Julie Lammers

SVP of Advocacy and Corporate Social Responsibility

Alisa Wilke

SVP of Product Operations

Cameron F. Logan Ph.D.

VP of Technology

Rilwan Meeran

VP of Mission Impact Investing

Kyle Morin

VP of Investments and Financial Analysis

Robin Gilbert

VP of People & Culture

Christopher Sheehan

VP and General Counsel

Greg Smith

VP of Marketing

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Lawrence H. Gennari

Chair of the Board of Directors

Carol Fulp

Vice Chair of the Board of Directors

Stephanie Crimmins

Board of Directors

Thomas R. Graf

Board of Directors

Ken Jones

Board of Directors

Alex Rappaport

Board of Directors

Carla Thompson Payton

Board of Directors

Daniel Acheampong

Board of Directors

Margaret (Mags) Ng

Board of Directors

J.D. LaRock

Board of Directors