IEL and the American Youth Policy Forum (AYPF) hosted the inaugural Samuel Halperin Lecture and Youth Public Service Award. The lecture and award serve as a tribute to Halperin, a former IEL president and AYPF founder, who dedicated his career to advancing education, workforce, and youth policy. This year, the Ford Foundation’s Hilary Pennington was the keynote lecturer. She spoke on the “Forgotten Half,” then and now, a reference to one of Halperin’s seminal works on non-college youth in America. The award winner was 24-year-old Efrem Ayalew, an AmeriCorps teacher’s assistant at a Maryland middle school. READ MORE AND WATCH THE VIDEO…