Torie Weiston-Serdan is a scholar and practitioner with over 17 years of teaching and youth programming experience. An award-winning leader in the youth mentoring field, she wrote Critical Mentoring: A Practical Guide, which has become the handbook for equity-focused youth work.
Outside of teaching and research, Weiston-Serdan serves as Chief Visionary Officer of the Youth Mentoring Action Network, a non-profit dedicated to building youth power globally through mentoring, education, and wellness. She also founded the Center for Critical Mentoring and Youth Work which works extensively with other community-based organizations in support of their youth advocacy efforts, specializing in training mentors to work with diverse youth populations: i.e. Black, Latinx, LGBTQQ, etc.
As a scholar, she examines how youth of the global majority and other minoritized youth populations are served by mentoring and youth development programs and leads the Community Engaged Education and Social Change Program in the School of Educational Studies at Claremont Graduate University.
Her work has been featured in Blavity, Forbes, Inside Philanthropy, and Philanthropy Women. Torie is one of the founding board Members for MENTOR CA and currently serves on the boards of Give Build Share, Big Brothers Big Sisters LGBTQ National Advisory Council, the Research Board of the National Mentoring Resource Center, and the California Endowment.
