From Our Board Chair

Dear Inspiring Minds Community,

This past year, we launched an intensive strategic planning process to refine Inspiring Minds’ mission and vision and to articulate our goals for the future. This plan, created in partnership with the community, gives us a clear path forward – a direction and momentum that would not have been possible without the drive and commitment of our outgoing executive director, Melissa Emidy. She has our enduring gratitude and admiration as she embarks on her next adventure.

The Inspiring Minds board is committed to making this leadership transition as smooth as possible. As Melissa mentioned, we plan to appoint an interim director in late spring and then launch an intensive search process for a permanent executive director. During this time, the board will continue to be actively involved in strategy, in-school and out-of-school programming, fundraising, and staff development. Please feel free to reach out to us with your ideas or concerns at transitionteam@inspiringmindsri.org.

For 60 years, Inspiring Minds has been positively impacting the academic and social-emotional outcomes of the students we serve. We look forward to building on that record of success while expanding our community-centric programming and promoting our message of antiracism and advocacy. Thank you for taking this journey with us.

Sincerely,
Kimberly Bright
Board Chair