YSI Staff

President, Co-Founder: Roger Landrum
Roger Landrum, Ph.D. Harvard University, Honorary Doctorate in Public Service, Albion College. Landrum was the founder and president of Youth Service America, a national organization that promoted youth service and was instrumental in the development of President Clinton's national youth service initiative, AmeriCorps. At YSA, Dr. Landrum was responsible for developing such innovative programs as National Youth Service Day, the New Generation Training Program, and the Fund for Social Entrepreneurs. A former Peace Corps volunteer in Nigeria (1961-63), Landrum is the founder of YSI’s partner in Hungary, Demokratikus Ifjusagert Alapitvany.

Executive Director, Co-Founder: Richard Harrill
Richard Harrill, J.D. and B.A., the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Harrill’s commitment to youth service began while still a high school student directing a community service program in Charleston, S.C. While in college he directed the youth service center at the University of North Carolina, and served as a board member for the Campus Outreach Opportunity League. He has been a Senior Fellow at the Bonner Foundation in Princeton, NJ and a youth policy coordinator for Columbia University’s Clearinghouse on International Developments in Child, Youth and Family Policy in New York. As a US Peace Corps volunteer in Veszprém, Hungary from 1993-1995, he developed a program model for incorporating service-learning into the Hungarian education system. Between 1998 and 2000, Harrill built Demokratikus Ifjusagert Alapitvany, launched its pilot programs and policy body, conducted research and developed its staff and board. He remains a DIA board member.