Alice Koerner

DIRECTOR OF PROGRAMS

As a native of Metro Atlanta, Alice Koerner is fervent about ending homelessness for [former] foster youth and thwarting the other challenges youth face when aging out. 

Alice is a byproduct of infant adoption during the Baby Scoop Era. She is intimately aware of the needs and resources natural families require to survive, heal, combat disease, learn, and grow.  She believes parents can derail children by preparing them for a world that doesn’t exist. Teaching life skills and financial literacy can be life saving.  She wants to revolutionize the existing systems to implement ethical capitalism.  She believes educating youth with arts, spiritual and life skills coaching can ignite foundational change.

Alice loves teaching the Girls On The Run, GOTR, life skills curriculum as a coach for an Atlanta Public Elementary School.  Ms. Koerner helped turn Georgia purple with her work to support the Senate runoff in 2021 with the help of Andrew Yang.  She is involved in stopping voter suppression by joining the Fair Fight Action lawsuit.

With a M.Sc. from the University of California, Santa Barbara, she technically lived a bit as a troglodyte discovering and mapping volcanoes.  Ms. Koerner is a technophile, she especially admires IoT tech and Silicon Valley innovations, as an alumna of Georgia Institute of Technology. Her undergraduate studies specialized in Seismology and Geophysics while she competed as a NCAA D1 running athlete.  As a professional in the Oil & Gas industry, Ms. Koerner drilled onshore oil wells in California for Chevron and explored oil fields internationally with Hess Corp. 

As a formerly licensed foster carer in Lansing, Michigan, Alice is pursuing her license for GA foster carers for reunification with Bloom Our Youth.  Alice resides north of midtown with her partner Jason and their two uniquely-abled felines.

She was an avid snowboarder, teacher, wilderness survivalist, and mountain climber.