Max Skolnik, Kid Power DC

Max Skolnik is the Executive Director and Co-Founder of Kid Power, Inc., a civics-based organization that provides academic, artistic, nutritional, and service-learning opportunities for youth in the District of Columbia. Since 2002, Kid Power has empowered youth to become informed and engaged advocates for change in their own lives and in their communities. Currently, it serves 325 students at 10 program sites.

Max has worked extensively in youth development and social services for nearly two decades in both New York and the District of Columbia. He has a Master’s Degree in Latin American Studies from The George Washington University. From 2005 to 2009, he served two terms as the elected Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner for Single-Member-District 6D01.

Max serves as a Board Member and the Policy Committee Chair of the DC Alliance of Youth Advocates, a coalition of over 100 youth-engaged organizations, youth, and concerned residents. He is also a founding member of the DC Public School Out-of-School-Time Steering Committee, a body formed in 2007 to design and manage a citywide afterschool structure.