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PORTLAND, Maine

Rebecca Boulos, Meredith Milnes and Brooke Burkett graduate from Emerging Leaders program

Rebecca Boulos, M.P.H., Ph.D., assistant clinical professor in the School of Community and Population Health; Meredith Milnes, market research analyst, College of Graduate and Professional Studies; and Brooke Burkett, M.S.W., School of Social Work ‘11, graduated from Lift360’s Emerging Leaders program in December 2014. 

Emerging Leaders is an innovative three-month program providing leadership development, mentoring, matching and transitioning guidance to participants eager to become more engaged in their communities. Graduates are paired with a successful Maine nonprofit board and/or committee leadership role. Boulos was matched with the Natural Resources Council of Maine, Milnes was matched with A Company of Girls and Burkett was matched with MaineShare.

Lift360 is a new organization formed by the merger of the Institute for Civic Leadership and Common Good Ventures. Its mission is to improve the effectiveness of leaders and organizations in Northern New England communities using a holistic and uniquely immersive process to accomplish both broad and deep impact.

More information about Lift360 and the Emerging Leaders program is available online.

About the University of New England

The University of New England is Maine’s largest independent university, with two beautiful coastal campuses in Maine, a one-of-a-kind study abroad campus in Tangier, Morocco, and an array of flexible, accredited online degrees. In an uncommonly welcoming and supportive community, we offer hands-on learning, empowering students to make a positive impact in a world full of challenges. The state’s top provider of health professionals, we are home to Maine’s only medical college, Maine’s only dental college, a variety of other interprofessionally aligned health care degree programs, as well as nationally recognized programs for marine science degrees, natural and social sciences degrees, arts and humanities degrees, and business degrees.