Executive Team

Amy Wagner, MSW | Founder & Co-Executive Director

Amy Wagner joined the social justice movement when she was marching in utero to ban the bomb. Amy spent her formative activist years during the anti-apartheid and Latin American solidarity movements. With a master’s degree in Social Work from New York University, she worked for many years as a social worker in alternative public high schools. She founded YA-YA Network in 1998.

Raúl Soto | Co-Executive Director

Raúl was born and raised in the Bronx, New York, and remains a resident there. He is an alum of Haverford College, where he received a BA in Religion with a concentration in Religion, Ethics, and Society, and CUNY Baruch College, where he received a Master of Public Administration (MPA) degree in the Executive Program. Raúl’s long-term goals are centered on creating an equitable future for the next generation by dismantling systems and mechanisms of oppression and racism.