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| The AALA Inagural Class |
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| 2004 - 2005 Fellows |
Front Row: Janelle N. Simmons, Community Shelter Board, TaKeysha
Sheppard, Ohio Legislative Black Caucus, Shawna Gibbs, Laurel Beatty, Otto Beatty Jr. & Associates, Uri Jurist
U.S. District Court Southern District of OH, June Stewart, Limitedbrands.
Back Row: Atiba Jones Franklin County Court of Common Pleas,
Aaron M. Riley, Columbus AIDS Task Force, Darrell A. Miller, Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP, Aaron L. Granger, Schottenstein
Zox & Dunn, Anthony F. Forte,’ Franklin County Board of Commissioners.
Not pictured: Pamela Foster, Fifth Third Bank.
The Program
The Fellowship program
is designed to expand the number of black leaders in our city who excel in their professions and engage in public life. We
wish to enlarge the definition of success and redefine the description of leadership to include doing well at work and doing
good in the community. To that end, we assembled a group of Fellows who have the likelihood of significant accomplishments
in both arenas. We selected people who are ready to grow and to engage in preparation for that kind of success and that kind
of leadership.
Our learning strategy, therefore, has
three components; faculty-mentors who themselves exemplify the qualities we want in the Fellows, guest speakers who will address
specific skills and styles of leadership, and a professional and career coach who will lead a process of self assessment,
career development and personal/professional formation.
The Fellowship addresses such core leadership and management
topics as power, conflict, group problem solving, oral and written communication, coalition building, self-management, fund
developments and finance and board relations.
Dr. Johnnetta B. Cole, Chair of the United Way of America and
key note speaker, and
Yvette McGee-Brown, Director of Columbus Children's Center
for Child and Family Advocacy,
at the graduation for the inagural class of fellows.
The Faculty
The
faculty is comprised of individuals who have demonstrated leadership in their profession and in the community as well. They
are:
Representative Joyce Beatty, Ohio House of Representatives
Ms. Yvette
McGee-Brown, The Center for Child & Family Advocacy
Mr. Michael Curtin, The Columbus Dispatch
Ms. Donna James, Nationwide
Mr. Larry James, Crabbe, Brown, & James
Senator Ray Miller, Ohio Senate
Mr. Alex Shumate, Squire, Sanders and Dempsey
Professor john a. powell, The
Ohio State University
AALA Photo Album
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