Staff

JUNTOS staff is on-site weekly at all Lennox Schools to provide coordinated services and supports. Juntos has provided placements for over 28 social work interns from a variety of social work graduate programs.

Meet the Founders

Emily Polk

Susan Saltz

Well before trauma was a buzzword, Susan Saltz and Emily Polk co-founded Juntos in 2012 with ongoing support from the Gary Saltz family foundation.  What started as a small but mighty team of three has grown into a staff of 14, providing trauma-informed services to students, families and district staff, deeply rooted in research-based practices, social justice, and equity.

Meet the Team

  • Ariel Wrye

    Curriculum specialist and staff liaison

  • Christine Franco

    Christine Franco is a Community Social worker who has worked in the Lennox School District for over thirty years, learning from and working with students and their families. Christine has served as a teacher, intervention and peer mediation program director, parent educator, regulation coach, district trainer, and Restorative Justice facilitator. As a Community Social worker, she supports Juntos interns, facilitates Restorative Justice Circles, runs a Pride Club, and helps with parent education. Christine is passionate about helping create school changes that embrace student and parent empowerment, teach about social justice, and help all kids, especially BIPOC and LGBTQAi+ youth, feel safe and thrive on school campuses. She is also a board member of the non-profit LumenSparQ, which works to highlight and support people in education who are working towards social justice.

  • Sakeena Mirza

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