April 2025 Monthly Meeting with Marissa Leichter

SAVE THE DATE!

HOPE, HEART & HOME 

MONTHLY VIRTUAL MEETING

Monday, April 14 @ 7 PM

Guest Speaker: MARISSA LEICHTER

Florida Foster Care Review

Marissa Leichter, Esq. joined Florida Foster Care Review as theCitizenReview Panel Program Manager in 2015 and is currently Senior Manager of Training and Engagement. Marissa has been a child advocate since 2004, first as a Senior Program Attorney with Miami’s Guardian ad Litem Program, and then as Director of Community and Legal Affairs for Educate Tomorrow. In 2013, Governor Scott appointed Marissa to the Board of Directors of The Children’s Trust, and she is currently serving her third and final term. She was selected as a Miami Fellow by The Miami Foundation in 2011-12 and has since served on the Foundation’s Engaged Youth Committee. Marissa is also the co-mentor for Florida Youth SHINE’s Miami Chapter – a youth run, peer driven organization working hard to change the culture of Florida’s child welfare system.  Marissa earned a Juris Doctor from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, an MPA from Florida International University and a B.A. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Please plan to join us! Invite a Friend!

Eric Schwindeman
Executive Director