Announcement of Executive Director Transition

With sadness and tremendous gratitude, the Board of Trustees announces that Alison Badgett is resigning her position as executive director of the Petey Greene Program (PGP), effective June 3, 2022. 

Under Alison’s leadership, the PGP has grown and thrived, despite the challenges to in-person tutoring operations posed by the pandemic. Alison led the development of a three-year strategic plan, diversified the PGP’s revenue stream by developing an organizational approach to fee-for-service contracts, led staff in developing new partnerships in each of the PGP regions, and expanded the PGP’s work into reentry programming and youth-serving programs. At a time of great challenge for nonprofit organizations, Alison orchestrated a period of growth and expansion for the PGP and earned the support and admiration of its staff. We are truly grateful for her leadership and wish her the very best in her next endeavor. 

The Board will launch a search for the PGP's next executive director in the coming weeks. Until the next executive director is selected, Emma Sindelar, the PGP’s current Director of Program Operations, will serve as the interim executive director. Emma has served in a number of roles at the PGP, and she brings a deep understanding of the work and considerable leadership expertise to the role. 

We are deeply grateful to Alison for her inspiring leadership of the PGP since 2019. She leaves an organization that is poised to grow both in programming and in influence, and her accomplishment is all the more remarkable given the pandemic that erupted just a few months into her tenure. 

If you have any questions about the transition or the search for the PGP’s next executive director, please do not hesitate to reach out to me: yusuf.s.dahl@gmail.com.

Yusuf Dahl, Chair, The Petey Greene Program Board of Trustees

Read Alison Badgett’s reflection on her time at the PGP

To the Petey Greene Program Community: 

I am writing to share with you my transition from the Petey Greene Program this June, after serving as executive director since 2019. Together, we have reimagined the Petey Greene Program, deepening the impact of the organization, now well into its second decade. 

Through innovative initiatives for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated students, like college readiness programs, hybrid learning, and reentry tutoring, and over a dozen new partnerships with community-based organizations, the Petey Greene Program has adapted and thrived despite the pandemic. We’ve added staff expertise in curriculum, training, evaluation, and communications, and the expertise of lived experience with the criminal legal system. Progress has been equally bold on the volunteer side, with the PGP’s launch of the HBCU Forward initiative to elevate and support Black volunteer tutors.

As one of the only organizations focused on prison education at the pre-collegiate level, with innovative program models and new, diversified funding streams, the PGP is poised for a new phase of growth, with the reputation to attract bold new leadership. In the meantime, the PGP will be led by an extraordinarily capable interim executive director, Emma Sindelar, who has worked with the Petey Greene Program in various roles since 2016, most recently as director of program operations. 

Thank you all for the opportunity to lead this important organization through a critical inflection point. I look forward to supporting the Petey Greene Program well into the future! 

Sincerely, 

Alison Badgett