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11 | Expanding Your Mind w/ Kenneth Ward
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Kenneth Ward is currently the Executive Director of College Bound, Inc. in Washington, D.C. As a Fulbright Memorial scholar in Japan and a seasoned D.C. educator and administrator for 15years, he has been instrumental in creating academic and personal enrichment programs for students, such as the Young Ambassadors program. Since its inception in 2000, this male-mentoring program has allowed him to take participants on life-changing international trips annually where they explore their historical and cultural roots; visiting schools, universities, local villages, and slave castles. This initiative gave birth to the College Bound International Study Tour that is a coed version of this program that fosters study abroad opportunities for College
Mr.Ward holds a Bachelor's degree in communications from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he matriculated on a Pogue Scholarship and a Master’s degree in educationfrom Trinity. He was hired as the Executive Director of College Bound in 2009. During this full time tenure at College Bound, he has opened three workplace mentoring sites and implemented a Virtual Mentoring Program designed to support the program’s alumni to college degree completion. Under his leadership, College Bound has doubled the amount of scholarship dollars awarded and more than tripled the number of students served by CollegeBound.
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