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The 15-member commission will be led by three chairs: Torrington Mayor Elinor Carbone; Andrew Ferguson, the chief executive at Dalio; and Josh Brown, a high school dropout who became a banking executive and leader of Domus, a non-profit serving teens in Stamford.
Months after the release of an alarming report on the growing population of disconnected youth in Connecticut, a new commission will work to tackle the issue.
Advocates for disconnected youth held a news conference Wednesday at the state Capitol to announce the establishment of a 15-member commission that includes 12 municipal leaders from some of the state’s largest to smallest towns, and another series of eight public forums on the Dalio Education report to be held this year.
Joshua Brown grew up chronically homeless in Stamford with his mother, sister and brother. On Wednesday. March 6, 2024, he was named as one of three co-chairs of the "119K Commission" formed by the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities, with a grant from Dalio Education, to examine disconnected youth statewide.