Chattanooga Prep hires new development director
Chattanooga Preparatory School recently announced that it hired Elizabeth Williams to serve as the school’s director of development.
Williams serves as board vice chair for the Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga, where she has been a board member since 2015. She also most recently served on the Ed Johnson Memorial Committee and co-chaired its capital campaign.
She has previously worked at Chattanooga Charter School of Excellence, Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau, Miami Dade College, United Negro College Fund and the United Way.
Williams also is a founding member of the Sankofa Fund for Civic Engagement, an African American giving circle launched in 2015, and serves on the Chattanooga Symphony and Opera’s Board of Directors.
Chattanooga Prep is the city’s only all-boys public charter school. Opened in 2018, the school was founded by Ted and Kelly Alling and is modeled after the success of Chattanooga Girls Leadership Academy, its sister school.
A native of Springfield, Massachusetts, Williams earned a bachelor’s degree from Westfield State University and a master’s degree in education from Springfield College.
CGLA student artwork featured in art installation
Barking Legs Theater is hosting the premiere of an art installation, featuring original artwork by six students from Chattanooga Girls Leadership Academy this week.
The Art X Change program asked students to “explore problems they see in their community and envision solutions through the creation of art using critical thinking and collaborative techniques,” according to a press release.
The art installation will feature work by Aboijang Ayai, Nakeeha McCroskey, Aline Niyibitanga, Yesenia Pablo, Janiyah Rivers and Pamela Sales. Local artists, including Shea Brill, Olga de Klein, Ann Law and Jamie Peterson, facilitated the project with support from the Lyndhurst Foundation and Scenic City Angel.
Community members are invited to attend the premiere from 5-7 p.m. on Monday or Wednesday at Barking Legs Theater, 1307 Dodds Ave.
Ten participants to graduate from Green Spaces’ Build It Green program
Chattanooga nonprofit, Green Spaces, is celebrating its most recent class of Build It Green, a 12-week leadership and workforce development training program.
The 10 participants of the program, which marries environmental justice, workforce development and soul-craft, provides paid technically training for jobs in the energy services field as well as training in other job readiness and personal development skills.
Green Spaces will be celebrating the graduates at 5 p.m. on Thursday at Green Spaces’s office, 63 E. Main St.
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