Pictured are the exteriors of the IUPUC building and the Columbus Learning Center in Columbus, Ind., Thursday, Oct. 26, 2017.
COLUMBUS, Ind. — The Community Education Coalition has named a new leader of Black and biracial youth initiatives in the community.
Felicia Garr, will co-create strategies to serve Black and biracial youth and their families and establish partnerships with local stakeholders to promote “diversity, equity and inclusion in service to student success.”
She will also be one of the featured guest speakers at the African American Pastors Alliance’s Rev. Martin Luther King Breakfast, which will be held at The Commons in downtown Columbus at 7:30 a.m. on Monday. The event is free and open to the public.
“I’m looking forward to getting to know the Black and biracial students and their families better in order to be of greater service,” Garr said in a statement regarding the new position. “It is essential that the relationship between the Black and biracial population and the community of Bartholomew County be intentional if it is going to truly become equitable. The good news is I have the heart, and I have the passion for doing the work. And I like the question: ‘What is it we can do together that none can do alone?’”
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