Advisory Boards bridge schools and communities. These individuals together provide the classroom speakers, mentors, job-shadowing venues, funding for scholarships, and paid internships for all eligible Academy students.
An Academy Advisory Board member:
- Enjoys creating customized work experiences in which students develop skills necessary for academic and professional success;
- Appreciates the value of capable and caring adult mentorship and professional internships to high school students who would not otherwise access this support;
- Understands the critical importance of their partnership to Academy staff and students who thrive with a strong degree of engagement from an Academy Advisory Board.
Academies are not only enhanced by a creative and engaged Advisory Board, but DEFINED by it.
Corporate personnel, representatives from institutions of higher learning, representatives from community-based non-profits, local or regional government representatives, small-business owners and employees all offer vast and essential resources that complete the structure of the NAF Academy model. Our Academy Advisory Board members are:
Position | Name | Organization | CHAIRMAN | Brian Leger | Lafayette Schools’ Credit Union | VICE-CHAIR | Cortney Boutte-Breaux | Lafayette Workforce Development Board | SECRETARY | Nancy Kinchen | South Louisiana Community College | TREASURER | Connie Roy | Lafayette Schools’ Credit Union |
| Stephen Bartley | Bartley Financial |
| Stephanie Bennett | Acadiana High School |
| Kathleen Comeaux | Chase Bank |
| James Debaillon | CGI Federal |
| Layne Edelman | Acadiana High School |
| Dr. Tony Greco | UL Lafayette College of Business |
| Geoffery Hebert | Cajun Harley-Davidson |
| Nancy Kinchen | South Louisiana Community College |
| Anna Leblanc | Acadiana High School |
| David Lejeune | Acadiana High School |
| Marilyn McDonald | Caffery Real Estate |
| Troy Meaux | Lafayette Coca-Cola, Parent |
| Herb Menard | WD & Mary Baker Smith Career Center |
| Purvis Morrison | Mayor, City of Scott |
| Robin Olivier | Lafayette Parish School System |
| Barbara Pippin | Lafayette Parish School System |
| Arica Prejean | Express Employment Professionals (Parent) |
| Brian Schlesinger | State Farm Insurance |
| David Slinin | Springhill Suites |
| Maegan Sonnier | Travel Machine |
| Mary Ellen Vincent | Morgan Stanley |
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