Environmental Leadership Program

Antoinette Gomez is youth outreach director with the Kennett area YMCA, where she conducts outreach to the Hispanic community and workers in the mushroom industry, and acts as a liasion with the Cooperative Extension Service and the Chester Gardening Association. She also is working to establish an Earth Service Corps for her YMCA branch. Prior to joining YMCA, Antoinette was an environmental consultant; educational coordinator for the South Bronx Overall Economic Development Corporation; and internship program coordinator for the Environmental Careers Organization. Previously, Antoinette was a graduate assistant to the Carter Center's Global 2000 Agricultural Program, and was a member of AmeriCorps Natural Resources Conservation Service. Antoinette recently joined the Board of the Penn State Chester County Cooperative Extension Service.