We will honor Greg Kristof with the Game Changers Award and provide eight TNE youth participants with scholarships.

Greg is a growth-oriented executive with a passion for scaling businesses and a career-long record of leading high-performance sales teams. He’s focused on growing the 3STEP reach and impact through strategic partnerships. 3STEP Sports is the most impactful youth sport ecosystem in the nation, designed to give every athlete, parent, and coach involved the premier sport experience. 3STEP spans 40+ states and currently serves more than 3.2 million athletes across eight sports through national events, club programs, elite showcases, and more.

Boston’s First Lady of Basketball

Known to her legion of former players and mentees as Ms. Harris, Roxbury native Alfreda Ramsey Harris is a true legend as a coach. Community leader, teacher, and mentor to generations of Boston’s youth.  

For more than 50 years Harris has served the community in a wide variety of roles. These include the following: Deputy Director of Recreation for the City of Boston; member; of Boston School Committee (retiring in 2013 after 16 years as the committee’s longest-serving member), first women’s head coach of basketball at UMass-Boston; first head women’s basketball coach at Roxbury Community College & Emerson College, only woman to coach boys at Boston Shootout Tournament, Project Director of Harvard School of Public Health’s “Play Across Boston” program, Project Director for Northeastern University’s “Sport in Society: ” Program Director at The Shelburne Community Center (where the gymnasium is named in her honor); and guiding force with former Celtic Wayne Embry behind the Boston Neighborhood Basketball League (BNBL). 

Among the many awards she’s received are the Henry L. Shattuck Award for Public Service from the Boston Municipal Research Bureau, the WCVB Good Sport Award, and the Mannie Jackson Award from the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame given to “individuals who have honored the game through lifelong accomplishments,” while “striving to improve their communities by making a commitment to others.” 

Shawn Brown is the Executive Director for Youth Guidance Boston (BAM and WOW). He has a strong passion for mentoring high-risk youth populations and more than 20 years of experience in the fields of youth development, violence prevention, and nonprofit leadership in the commonwealth. Since being named the founding Executive Director for Youth Guidance Boston – the first national expansion of the program – Brown has successfully launched two evidence-based programs and expanded Becoming A Man and Working On Womanhood to three school districts.

Brown provides strong leadership and management in Boston, overseeing program fidelity, organization strategy, and financial sustainability.