Announcing WLI’s Network and Program Director, Minda Brooks
After a successful search, the WLI Board of Advisors is pleased to introduce you to Minda Brooks, WLI’s Network and Program Director. As you will remember, the NP Director is a new position and will be the sole employee at WLI. Kathleen Clark is contracting with WLI as lead faculty and coach for the 2011-13 Friday Fellowship and that contract will begin in December 2011.
Minda’s programmatic focus is connecting and catalyzing the Fellows Action Network through personal and technological programming. Please join the WLI Board in welcoming and supporting Minda by email by clicking here.
Minda will begin work on November 7th and will be working closely with the Fellows who have volunteered to serve on the Ad Hoc Fellows Action Network Committee of the Board. Katy Harriger, our incoming Chair, is the current lead on that committee that will work with Minda over the coming two years to develop a strategic plan and deliverables for the FAN. Fellows, if you would like to serve on this committee we welcome your involvement. Email Minda to let her know you are interested.
Minda has spent her professional life mentoring undergraduates and enhancing the quality of their experience. She returned to her alma mater teaching in the Department of Dramatic Art at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill after earning her Master of Theatre Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder. At UNC she shared her love of theatre to inspire and deepen students’ understanding of the human condition. While at UNC, she also did academic advising guiding students towards graduation, assisting those in academic and personal distress, and specialized in helping transfer students acclimate and achieve in their new environment. Since 2007, she went over to the darker side of blue and accepted the position of Assistant Director of the Benjamin N. Duke Scholarship Program at Duke University, a merit scholarship program for North and South Carolina residents. Here, she was able to intensify her work with students focusing on their development as servant leaders and coaching them towards their academic, professional, and personal goals. The experience she gained from selecting the scholars to foster and support a sense of community will serve her well in her current role with WLI. Minda is looking forward to applying her substantive knowledge and creativity to WLI, and the Fellows Action Network, in particular. Minda lives in Wake Forest with her husband, Lindy, son, Quinn (10), daughter, Zoë (7), and dog, Roy (in honor of Tar Heels coach, Roy Williams). As you can see from Minda working at rival Universities with equal hard work and committment, she is a both/and kind of North Carolinian.
If you are not currently receiving WLI Dispatches and would like to, please let Minda know and she will add you to the list. Thank you for your support of and committment to WLI as we continue to move forward with our plans.
OUR MISSION
Wildacres Leadership Initiative cultivates a network of courageous leaders who connect across differences in identity and ideas to develop new solutions to the complex challenges facing the people and communities of North Carolina.
WLI fulfills its mission and goals through three core programs:
William C. Friday Fellowship for Human Relations is a two-year Fellowship for emerging leaders in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors who are able to directly affect issues facing our communities.
Fellows Action Network connects leaders who have the common experience of the Friday Fellowship with each other and to other statewide and community leaders.
Center for Excellence in Leadership promotes the value of the principles and practices of leading with integrity, intention, and inclusion through products and services such as a speakers' bureau and leadership curriculum, publications, and articles.
Coming Out~Coming In: Faith, Identity and Belonging, a 30-minute documentary developed by four members of the 2001-2003 class of William C. Friday Fellows in the Wildacres Leadership Initiative, was awarded an Emmy for best topical documentary for 2009 by the 24th Annual Midsouth Emmy Awards.Fellows Laurie Hays Coffman (Durham), Andy Baxter (Charlotte), Keith Martin (Richmond, VA), and Susan Acker-Walsh (Chapel Hill) conceived and raised funds for the documentary that presents personal stories from gay and lesbian Christians who live and worship in North Carolina. Georgann Eubanks and Donna Campbell, Principals of of Minnow Media and program partners for the Fellowship, produced the documentary. For more information and to purchase a copy of the film, go to www.coming-out-coming-in.net Go to the 35 minute mark on the video below to see Keith Martin and Donna Campbell accepting the Emmy. http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/4337507
After a successful search, the WLI Board of Advisors is pleased to introduce you to Minda Brooks, WLI’s Network and Program Director. As you will remember, the NP Director is a new position and will be the sole employee at WLI. Kathleen Clark is contracting with WLI as lead faculty and coach for the 2011-13 Friday Fellowship and that contract will begin in December 2011.