Bonnie Gross is the former: New York City Department of Education, Executive Director, Office of Student Enrollment; the Director of Students Living in Temporary Housing; Chairperson of Chancellors’ Advisory Committee on Child Abuse and Neglect/Prevention and Intervention. Bonnie has been a popular and respected Adjunct Instructor in the School of Education at CUNY Brooklyn College. Her initiation and implementation of dozens of programs for marginalized youth has changed the trajectory of their lives opening up unprecedented opportunities.