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Dear Young Center Community of Friends,
Her friends and colleagues knew her as Liz. We, her immediate family, called her Lizzy or Elizabeth.
Nickname’s aside, all of us agree that from an early age, Elizabeth had a particular interest in and commitment to helping children.
When she developed walking pneumonia during her stint working for Teach for America (TFA), she never gave up doing all she could to make a difference in her students’ lives. Elizabeth fulfilled her service, completing two years as a teacher at an under-resourced middle school in the South Bronx. Years later, she was contacted by one of the students from her first year of TFA who told her how much that year in her class had meant to him.
This commitment persisted when Elizabeth got involved in pro bono immigration work in Maine. She was so inspired by the work that she applied for a job with the Immigrant Child Advocacy Project (ICAP) at the University of Chicago. The opportunity would involve advocating on behalf of unaccompanied immigrant children in government custody. The project’s founder Maria Woltjen hired Elizabeth and eventually, ICAP became the Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights.
The rest, as they say, is history.
Elizabeth always loved the outdoors. Running was her exercise of choice - whether on the Middlebury College campus, at a park in New York City or near our home in New Jersey. After her first round of cancer treatment, Elizabeth moved back from Chicago to New York and led the Young Center office in New York City. Here, she organized a relay race to raise support for the Young Center and also to help her to get back into shape after the treatments that had weakened her body. She completed the race which, in hindsight, could be called the first Waymakers Race.
Naming the Young Center Waymakers Race after Elizabeth is a wonderful tribute. She would have been so grateful to all the runners from all over the United States who are joining us throughout the month of September.
From all of us, thank you for supporting Elizabeth's vision for a better world for children, one step at a time.
The Frankel Family
Michael, Joan, Sarah and Jonathan
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